Updating BIOS

[Ihor Antonov]

On 2020-02-06 08:58, Jerry wrote:
> I have a PC running FreeBSD 11.3 / amd64. I need to update the BIOS.
> The BIOS update file is from Dell and is an "EXE" file. What is the
> recommended method for updating the BIOS using that file?


You might have some luck with Linux. It is much easier to boot it then
DOS variants


There is a tool [1] in Linux world that gets firmware (inluding BIOS) from
Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)[2]

[1] https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd
[2] https://fwupd.org/

It looks like DELL has some presense there too


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Ihor Antonov