Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:51:16 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain Message-ID: <20121029235116.6bbaafd6.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1351550659119-5756381.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <201210191038.q9JAcmq7073341@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <1351550659119-5756381.post@n5.nabble.com>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT), Jakub Lach wrote: > More civilised notebook manufactures usually provide > also self booting (CD) image to update BIOS > (e.g. Lenovo/ThinkPad). I've recently heared (but not verified) that some manufacturers provide floppy disk images that can be used with floppies (if you have them) utilizing a USB floppy disk drive to boot (selectable as boot source at system startup). This way you don't waste 650 MB, only 1.44 MB for this one-time use... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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