Comments on: Installing HP BIOS Updates under Linux

By: jrdls

jrdls — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:27:35 +0000

I’m out of luck. When I extracted the files of the .exe file (using cabextract instead as suggested by one of the commenters) I got 4 files, none of them being a .IMG file. All I got was one .sys file, one .SYS file, one .exe file and one .VXD file. Do I have to use wine to do my bios update or can I do something else? BTW is it safe to do my bios update through wine?

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:33:44 +0000

You could just use cabextract to get at the files.

I just unpacked the hp bios update for a compaq 6000 SFF machine, it has an iso in there ready to burn onto cd. (as well as 1.44MB disk images)

By: Jonathan Maddox

Jonathan Maddox — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:30:11 +0000

Wonderful notes. Unfortunately it doesn’t work these days … later bios updates are done not with a floppy image but from inside windows using “unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.MmMapIoSpace” (wine error). The BIOS update page claims that the update is valid only for Windows 7 and Vista, but there are error dialogs mentioning XP (“run as Administrator if you are using Windows XP”) as well.

I don’t have a windows installation on this machine, since I got it without a hard disk (original broke) as a hand-me-down. It’s Linux only. And has a suspend/resume BIOS bug which was worked around in the original Windows drivers but even so fixed by HP with a BIOS update for Linux users over a year ago. Funny, the person who gave me the machine also ran Linux on it, but never used suspend/resume. For me it’s a must-have or the laptop is usable only as a desktop. Grrr.

Anyway. You got me pretty close, thanks for the post.

By: darake

darake — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:09:09 +0000

Sh*t !

Thanks to your tutorial, I’m sure that I can upgrade my bios through gnu-Linux but I need more help.

I have several file with others name, some directories, but unfortunately there is no COPYDISK.exe, instead I got delay.exe, EXITCODE.exe, showmsg1.exe… Delay is a dos command line but delay no delay, nobodies knows !
It seems that my new bios is contained in this file ~/.wine/drive_c/SwSetup/SP38061/30B7F3D.WPH ( 1109666 MBytes ) and in .wine/drive_c/SwSetup/SP38061/SWinFlash/ I have an other one called BIOS.WPH ( 1109554, wh at tha ! )

After comparing ( hd then diff ) , there is too much differences between theses files…Which is the right file ??

I’m completely lost…

Thanks to help if you have any informations about that…Can you update this issue by email ?