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Re: bios flash under linux

From J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: bios flash under linux
Date 2012-01-29 00:47 +0000
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On Saturday, January 28th, 2012, at 23:59:16h +0000,
John Connolly explained:

> Using the procedure you describe I either get the problem that
> I describe above or the message that the program is too
> large for memory

So this has nothing to do with GNU/Linux and is a DOS problem.

Using a web search engine and searching on 

    bios update program is too large for memory

leads to the web page at

<http://forums.mydigitallife.info/archive/index.php/t-5863-p-85.html>

which suggest

QUOTE

    I can't flash bios on DOS. It's show

    "Program too big to fit in memory"

    
    Remove ANY lines from CONFIG.sys and AUTOEXEC.bat
    (in your DOS bootable media) and try again.
  
UNQUOTE

If that does not work then you need to contact the company who
supplied you with the BIOS flash utility and the BIOS update file.

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bios flash under linux john connolly <wconn@kc.rr.com> - 2012-01-28 23:09 +0000
  Re: bios flash under linux J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-28 23:35 +0000
    Re: bios flash under linux john connolly <wconn@kc.rr.com> - 2012-01-28 23:59 +0000
      Re: bios flash under linux J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-29 00:47 +0000
        Re: bios flash under linux john connolly <wconn@kc.rr.com> - 2012-01-29 19:32 +0000
          Re: bios flash under linux john connolly <wconn@kc.rr.com> - 2012-01-30 01:44 +0000
  Re: bios flash under linux Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> - 2012-01-29 03:37 +0000
    Re: bios flash under linux Dave <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2012-01-29 10:07 +0000
    Re: bios flash under linux J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-01-29 16:12 +0000
      Re: bios flash under linux Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-29 20:35 +0100
  Re: bios flash under linux philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2012-01-29 17:24 -0600

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