Reflashing BIOS.

koder iscreamkid at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 20:44:36 MST 2014


I did not say explicitly, but it is my opinion that you do not need to, 
and should not flash the BIOS as the BIOS is booting.

Yes, per Wikipedia, as I understand it, part of the EFI is on the hard 
drive, I assume that if the ROM BIOS is looking for that portion it will 
go weird, as in hanging or something equally exciting.

Please consult others for verification.



On 12/17/2014 07:10 PM, Stephen M wrote:
> My drive is plugged in and yes I can boot into a live CD.  For a while 
> it allowed me to fix the grub bootloader. Not it says it found a GPT 
> partition but nothing is on there but the OS.  And when I try to 
> format a bios_boot partition.  It just throws up more errors.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com 
> <mailto:iscreamkid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?
>
>     In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?
>
>
>
>
>     On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>     Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does.  As for
>>     trying to open an EFI shell, thats not happening.
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington
>>     <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
>>
>>         On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington"
>>         <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
>>
>>             On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M"
>>             <smelheim85 at gmail.com <mailto:smelheim85 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Yes the BIOS does see them both.  The trouble is that
>>                 it was booting to EFI first now it won't boot to
>>                 either legacy or EFI.  It just sits there after the
>>                 setup screen.
>>                 Ya thats what I am trying to work with.  I have a
>>                 copy of WINs7 but it doesn't want to load.  This
>>                 computer doesn't have a floppy and I don't have
>>                 access to one at the moment.  So I need to find other
>>                 solutions.
>>
>>                 On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington
>>                 <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>>
>>                 wrote:
>>
>>                     2 thoughts,
>>
>>                     1 - Does the bios see the drive physically?
>>
>>                     2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or
>>                     something similar) to run the executable. or a
>>                     windows environment.
>>
>>                     On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash
>>                     <michael at butash.net <mailto:michael at butash.net>>
>>                     wrote:
>>
>>                         HP is notoriously horrible about supporting
>>                         linux on desktop or laptop's, so you won't
>>                         get help there. They're also quite
>>                         proprietary acpi implementations, so likely
>>                         still (haven't looked in a while) no one
>>                         bothers to figure out and support them.
>>
>>                         My first, and subsequently last, hp laptop I
>>                         kept the original windoze disk for this
>>                         purpose alone, and just loaded new ssd's with
>>                         linux.  About 6mo ago I sold to a friend, but
>>                         flashed the bios from windoze luckily having
>>                         kept it as the only option I could find to
>>                         get a current bios on it. Install xp long
>>                         enough on a temp disk to flash it?
>>
>>                         This is why I've usually decried HP to the
>>                         good folks on this list - they're just not
>>                         linux friendly, and hardly worth a darn for
>>                         anything but servers anymore.
>>
>>                         -mb
>>
>>
>>
>>                         On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:
>>>                         Hi,
>>>
>>>                         I need help again to be able to reflash my
>>>                         BIOS.  The reason is that my computer is
>>>                         having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or
>>>                         USBs.  I know this is the case with the
>>>                         desktop because it works fine in my laptop. 
>>>                         I have tried to reset the BIOS and thought
>>>                         at first to reinstall GRUB.  Nothing is
>>>                         working but my HDD does show it does have a
>>>                         OS on it.
>>>
>>>                         i already downloaded the BIOS version from
>>>                         HP but it is an exe file.  Could anyone help
>>>                         me to see how I can fix this problem?
>>>
>>>                         -- 
>>>                         Stephen Melheim
>>>                         602-400-7707 <tel:602-400-7707>
>>>                         SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>                         <mailto:SMelheim85 at gmail.com>
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