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I also use generally the flash tool inside my bios, but flashrom is a great alternative. I flashed many board with it already, everytime without problems. It's not true though that almost every mainboard is supported. Almost every chip is supported but many mainboards need some special instruction to allow flashing, but I i asked in the IRC channel and they helped my and now everyone with my mainboard can flash out of the box. I don't think that is soo dangerous with linux, but of course there is everytime a risk. I really suggest everyone to play with it.
And what coreboot does is awesome, they provide a fast and stable firmware for many mainboards, but not on mine yet. AMD does also help there with code. A mainboard vendor should create a coreboot by default board I'd buy it at once. The BIOS is the last unfree part of my system. And its the most bad part of my system, too. Slow, buggy, simply bad. It seems that there is coreboot code for 780G chips, but they are not allowed to release it. I'd be so happy!
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I think I'll stick with boot floppies running freedos thank you, too big a chance of bricking...
good thing some boards now have the utility built into the bios itself to grab the flash from a usb stick.
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Originally posted by mattmatteh View Posti didnt think any modern operating system made bios calls.
the flashrom utility looks great, now i just need something from coreboot to replace the crappy bios i am stuck with now. (asus and gigabyte bios suck)
matt
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yeah - except that a friend had to RMA an asus board in January after a failed flash - and not even the floppy/usb bios boot worked anymore.
Nice in theory, but fails in practice too.
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If you have got Asus or Gigabyte boards they have got the flash tool inside the bios already. Only put it onto a fat partition on hd or partitioned usb stick (not superfloppy mode).
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bridgeman has a good point. Even if I had windows installed, I would still flash with freedos.
It is so easy! systemrescuecd on usbstick. Copy flash file and flasher from mobo vendor on stick, boot from stick, choose freedos, flash.
Since a lot of driver cds from mobo vendors come with freedos this days it is a lot less risky then some 3rd party tool...
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If I flash my bios from windows and it dies. I can swear at the motherboard manufacturer.
If I flash my bios from linux and it dies. Who do I swear at?
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