list of systems not working with dellBiosUpdate

Fabrice LORRAIN Fabrice.Lorrain at univ-mlv.fr
Mon Aug 20 02:28:37 CDT 2007


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a écrit :
> On 18.08.2007 09:26, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote:
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a écrit :
>>> You can try flashrom from LinuxBIOS on all of these machines. If the
>>> flash chip is detected correctly, there is a good chance you also can
>>> flash a new Dell BIOS version.
>>> Simply install flashrom (instructions at http://linuxbios.org/Flashrom )
>>> and run "flashrom -V". The output will usually give enough information
>>> to add support for flashing your BIOS if it's not supported yet.
>> Thanks for the hint.
>> Any backport of flashrom for debian/etch floating around ?
> 
> Looking at the dependencies for flashrom in debian/testing, it should
> install and work without problems in etch. If not, please tell me.
> 

Good thinking. I only checked dependancies in sid. Current version 
flashrom from lenny installs without pb on etch.

Thanks.

@+,
	Fab


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