Among other things that comes in a decision when buying a new motherboard, should be taken care how easy it is to upgrade the BIOS of the motherboard under linux.
Asus and Gigabyte have a flashing utility integrated directly in the BIOS, allowing to flash with a USB drive directly from the BIOS. Rather cool when using linux.
Abit and MSI doesn't seems to be so friendly when it comes to BIOS upgrades for non-windows users, but what are the options to flash the bios when the computer doesn't have a floppy drive nor windows ?
There is the FreeDOS option (I think it's called "FreeDOS" ?), but is it safe enough to flash a mobo on which you don't have a backup BIOS in case of emergency (Abit doesn't seems to integrate a second BIOS on mobos, don't know for MSI) ? Especially when BIOS programs are engineered to work with a floppy drive and not an USB Flash drive.
Has someone a walktrough for that or am I condemned to choose between Asus or Gigabyte just because of the BIOS ??? (Which are good brands, that's not the point, just I'd like perhaps more choice after all)
Asus and Gigabyte have a flashing utility integrated directly in the BIOS, allowing to flash with a USB drive directly from the BIOS. Rather cool when using linux.
Abit and MSI doesn't seems to be so friendly when it comes to BIOS upgrades for non-windows users, but what are the options to flash the bios when the computer doesn't have a floppy drive nor windows ?
There is the FreeDOS option (I think it's called "FreeDOS" ?), but is it safe enough to flash a mobo on which you don't have a backup BIOS in case of emergency (Abit doesn't seems to integrate a second BIOS on mobos, don't know for MSI) ? Especially when BIOS programs are engineered to work with a floppy drive and not an USB Flash drive.
Has someone a walktrough for that or am I condemned to choose between Asus or Gigabyte just because of the BIOS ??? (Which are good brands, that's not the point, just I'd like perhaps more choice after all)
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