How to flash BIOS from a non Windows OS

Question

Hey Everyone, I run FreeBSD 5.2R on my Inspiron 5150, and i was wondering how do i go about flashing my bios? I know the pre A29 BIOSes came as floppy images that you could boot from and then flash it like that, but the current BIOSes require that they be run on windows and then they reboot the machine them selfs and flash the bios. So how do i do this? Can i just copy the BIOS exe to a windows floppy, boot from it and run it in dos mode? Or is it a windows application which needs windows?. Thanks! Bob Page

RP-L2 · Answer

You can try creating the BIOS disk from another computer which has a windows OS

A_Beach · Answer

Take a look at FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/ I'm not sure this will help, but it might. Good luck.

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