Biosflash

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Flashing your bios in Linux

There is a way to update your pc's bios from Linux which is especially useful for computers with no stiffy drive. coreboot-utils are available in Factory_OSS and :-

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bwalle/openSUSE_10.3 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bwalle/openSUSE_10.2

or http://packages.opensuse-community.org/index.jsp and search for coreboot

Full Instructions, a list of supported chipsets and mother boards are available at http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom

Warning!

This very useful utility can make your computer useless! If you do not know what you are doing, don't play with this program. Your computer will not start again if the bios is destroyed. Please visit the above Coreboot link and read carefully. You use this software at your own risk. It was tested on a Foxconn 6100M2MA-RS2H with an nvidia MCP51 chipset and it worked, but it may not work on your mother board.

About Coreboot

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload.