[ale] SuperMicro Power Down

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

On 4/22/05, Jason Fritcher <jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > The manufacturer gave me a newer rev to flash but why in the hell do I
> > have to boot dos to do it?  I have to find a floppy and find a version
> > of windows that will make a simply bootable dos floppy.
> 
> Use FreeDOS. Download a floppy image, write to disk, be happy. :)
> 
> www.freedos.org

The LInuxBIOS project has (or had 3 year ago) a BIOS flashing program.
 Didn't work on all motherboards or CMOS chips, but it wasn't too hard
to add chips to it.  Using it I could flash the BIOS from a running
system, no need to reboot at all.

Michael