{"id":10,"date":"2007-01-26T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/01\/26\/bios-linux\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T23:15:54","slug":"bios-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/01\/26\/bios-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOS &#038; Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><wpg2id>2498<\/wpg2id><br \/>\nMy desktop at home is a system I assembled myself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939<\/li>\n<li>Motherboard: Gigabyte <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigabyte.com.tw\/Support\/Motherboard\/BIOS_Model.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&#038;ProductID=1859&#038;ProductName=GA-K8NXP-SLI\">GA-K8NXP-SLI<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Memory: 2GB of Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)<\/li>\n<li>Video Card: eVGA GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to upgrade the CPU to a AMD dual-core processor, ZipZoomFly has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zipzoomfly.com\/jsp\/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80728-R\">AMD X2 4800+ for $209<\/a>, and it&#8217;s out of stock! But, before I can upgrade the CPU I need to update the BIOS. Currently, the BIOS is version F7 and it looks like I need F9 or greater to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigabyte.com.tw\/Support\/Motherboard\/CPUSupport_List.aspx?ProductID=1859\">support<\/a> the newer processors (I bought the motherboard in 2005 before the X2&#8217;s were available).<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 ways to update the BIOS:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use a Windows Utility<\/li>\n<li>Update with a DOS boot Disk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I only have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian GNU Linux<\/a> on the system, and I don&#8217;t have a floppy drive which is what you need to make a DOS boot disk. I dual-boot my laptop between Windows XP &#038; Ubuntu Linux, because I need WinXP to VPN to work they just dropped Linux VPN support &#8230; but&#8217;s that another story if anyone asks I&#8217;ll tell it! \ud83d\ude42 But, the laptop doesn&#8217;t have a floppy drive either! It be nice if Motherboards manufacture could provide bootables images so us non-Windows users could just write it to a CD-ROM or a USB drive and boot and flash the BIOS from there.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;d created a DOS boot CD-ROM using Linux a few years ago but I couldn&#8217;t quite remember how. I found the old disk image I&#8217;d created and mounted it using the loopback interface, but just couldn&#8217;t remember what I had to do to &#8230; well thanks to that new  fangled Google thing I found this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenie.org\/misc\/flashbootcd.html\">http:\/\/www.nenie.org\/misc\/flashbootcd.html<\/a>. After 5 minutes of trying to figure out the arguments to cdrecord to tell it what device was the CD-writer and <code>cdrecord -scanbus<\/code> return nought I used K3B to write the image the image to the CD. But, just what a pain in the backside &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2498 My desktop at home is a system I assembled myself: CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Memory: 2GB of Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Video Card: eVGA GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express I&#8217;d like to upgrade the CPU to a AMD dual-core processor, ZipZoomFly has the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/01\/26\/bios-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIOS &#038; Linux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}