{"id":1658,"date":"2013-03-07T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2013-03-07T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:15:22","slug":"updating-bios-firmware-with-help-of-linux-without-cds-and-usb-pendrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2013\/03\/updating-bios-firmware-with-help-of-linux-without-cds-and-usb-pendrives\/","title":{"rendered":"updating bios \/ firmware with help of linux, without cds and usb pendrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s bioses, sometimes raid\/network\/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar.<\/p>\n<p>but i stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donarmstrong.com\/posts\/x200_bios_update\/\">this<\/a> one and it worked surprisingly well.<\/p>\n<p>under debian i had to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> install syslinux\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\napt-get install syslinux \r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<p>place the iso file provided by the vendor in my boot filesystem partition [in my case it was also root]\n<\/li>\n<li>\nmodify grub to include:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nmenuentry &quot;firmware&quot; {\r\n    insmod part_msdos\r\n    insmod ext2\r\n    set root='(hd0,msdos1)'\r\n    linux16 \/usr\/lib\/syslinux\/memdisk iso\r\n    initrd16 \/isoWithFirmwareUpgrade.iso\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>neat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s bioses, sometimes raid\/network\/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar. but i stumbled on this one and it worked surprisingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unimportant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}