I love my Revo but lately I discovered a small audio problem wherein I would need to reinitialize the soundcard after having been idle for a half an hour or so. On the advice of the always awesome Daniel T. Chen I checked if there was a BIOS update available, and what would you know there was. There was even one available labelled “Linux” but no changelog is present. A secondary problem is that the required flashing tool for this update only is available for DOS and Windows. However there is a workaround in making a bootable iso with FreeDOS.
This process should work for any machine
- Obtain the desired BIOS update from the vendor website
- open a terminal and change to root
- cd /tmp
- wget http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz
- gunzip FDOEM.144.gz
- mkdir floppy
- mount -t vfat -o loop FDOEM.144 /tmp/floppy
- now copy the BIOS update and the flash tool(s) into the floppy directory
- umount floppy
- mkisofs -o bios.iso -b FDOEM.144 FDOEM.144
You now have an ISO image you can burn to a CD which will boot into good old DOS and allow you to update your BIOS. Not optimal but a viable solution for important updates.
And here is one I prepared earlier.
You might be interested in using a USB stick instead of CD. It’s easier on a revo which doesn’t have a CD rom drive! – http://www.madeo.co.uk/?p=112