Flash your computer BIOS now under Linux

Saturday, May 9. 2009

Flash your computer BIOS now under Linux

FlashROM 0.90 has been released as part of the CoreBoot project.

That means you can read, write and verify almost all common BIOS chips now under Linux!

Gone of the days of needing to boot into DOS to Flash your BIOS.

So what does this mean?

Flash a running system, without needing to reboot. The new BIOS comes effective after a reboot (you can verify it prior to bouncing it).
Flash a remote system over SSH. No physical access required.
No need for a boot floopy or bootable CD to flash a system.
More than Linux is available. It is also available under FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like OSes.

Awesome work by the CoreBoot developers, and it means we're one step closer to removing any dependency on that other OS.

Posted by Matt in Apps, Hardware, Linux at 00:19 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Now that's what I call awesome!

#1 Chris Samuel (Homepage) on 2009-05-10 22:51 (Reply)

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