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Motherboard BIOS upgrade
1 TopicUpdating motherboad BIOS from OS6 -- can't get it to work
There is an older post, now closed (why does Netgear do this when future changes really can need a subject to be resurrected?) at How to update BIOS w/ OS6.x installed on updating some of the legacy machines (Pro6, Ultra6, Ultra4, Ultra2) motherboard BIOS if you made the switch to OS6 without first updating the BIOS and can no longer use the .bin package to do the upgrade. I can't get it to work. The forum poster may have been wrong when he said pars of the referenced article are wrong. The author in the referenced article does not seem to assume that you have flashrom and dmidecode installed as the forum posting states, the process given includes extracting them from the .bin package and moving flashrom and the .ROM files to /opt/flashrom. Dmidecode is not moved, but I can't see where it's needed, anyway. But, try as I might, I cannot still get the instructions to work. Bash complains -bash: /opt/biosflash/flashrom: No such file or directory in spite of the fact that flashrom is there and executable: flashrom -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root root 280765 Jan 13 2011 flashrom. It makes no difference what directory I am in when I do this (making appropriate change to the path, of course). I can't even copy, move, or delete flashrom unless I use flashrom* instead of flashrom. That sounds a lot like there is an unprintable charachter at the end, but why then do ls, find, and cat all work without the * appended? I can do as I please with the non-executable files in the same directory, and I can I can do with it what I please (except, of course, execute it) it if I chmod it to non-executable. lsattr shows all dashes for the file. I tried using a newer version of flashrom that I installed with apt-get to do the ROM update, but it has a problem of it's own. It needs to be configured for the archetecture, and that fails on the Pro6, which is where I need it (error has been reported). I'm no Linux wiz, and Google has not been my friend here. No suggested solutions found in a search have helped. Anybody here have any clues/suggestions?Solved6.6KViews1like11Comments
