Re: Flash BIOS under linux

Graham Murray (graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk)
06 Apr 1999 14:17:13 +0000


Greaves Tristan TM <Tristan.Greaves@icl.com> writes:

> Depends on what you mean by "flash" really. Do you mean reset to
> defaults, set to zero etc?

No, flashing a BIOS is upgrading the code in the EEPROM, ie
electrically erasing the EEPROM and then re-programming it with the
updated code.

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