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Flash BIOS on Linux system without floppy

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

My new Linux server will have an AMD Sempron 3000+ CPU, but my MSI RS482M-IL motherboard would not recognize this processor, the BIOS was too old. I did not build in a floppy, so the normal flash procedure does not work. Googling showed up some alternatives of doing this via CD. Free DOS did not work, but the following did:

  • Burn DOS 6.21 on a CD.
  • Burn the BIOS image and flash program on another CD.
  • Boot from the DOS CD and note on which letter the CD drive is mounted, for me it was R:.
  • Type R:
  • Exchange the DOS CD with the BIOS CD.
  • Follow the BIOS flash procedure.

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