Update the bios of the DELL laptop under ubuntu

Hi all.

I have a dell inspiron N411Z (or N14z).

I installed portable ubuntu 12.04 as a single operating system on the computer. Current kernel is 3.2.0 - 30, gnome 3.4.2.

Are the details of my BIOS: A02 19/10/2011

I opened a session in the DELL support web page, and after giving my serial number, I was redirected to the following web page: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/gr/en/grdhs1/ServiceTag/ maintain the label removed by privacy policy >

As you will see, there is a new update for my BIOS, namely A05 19/04/2012, however is a ".exe" file and therefore cannot be used with Microsoft windows operating systems.

I'd appreciate very much if you will guide me in the process step by step how to upgrade the BIOS of my laptop said, because the operating system is linux - ubuntu 12.04.

For your info, my laptop is certified ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201106-8252/

Thank you.

As I opened this thread, I'll you know how I managed to update my BIOS.

First of all, I think that since the update of the BIOS is a very sensitive issue (taking in mind that if something is wrong you can brick your laptop), the best way to do this is to follow the manufacturer's instructions exactly. Since there is no official record for the use of linux, it is advisable to use the .exe for windows file.

So, I managed to find a way to actually update my BIOS through windows without installing windows.

What you need:

(1) a 32 bit windows7 installation. On another PC or even install via Virtual Box. (In fact, I installed win7 via the virtual machine. I found the iso of win7 from google. I don't have not had to save windows as they give you a period of 30 days of grace and we have actually windows for 5 minutes).

(2) a USB stick with at least 1 GB of space

(3) the right bios.exe file that we get from the manufacturer's web page.

(4) a specific dll file. In my case it was oledlg.dll.

(5) a blank CD.

Step 1.

We start windows and create us a rescue disk from windows7.

Step 2.

Format us the USB drive in FAT32.  We copy and paste all the files within the USB rescue disk.

Let's open up command prompt and we follow the following sequence of commands to make the USB bootable:

DiskPart (it turns at the diskpart prompt)

listdisk (he will give the list of available disks)

Select disk 2 (you select the USB stick drive. In my case it was the No2. Be very careful during this step).

list partition (it lists the partitions on the usb key. It will be only 1 since we have just formatted it).

Select partition 1 (we choose the partition)

Active (make us active or bootable)

Step 3

We open the USB and we create a file called BIOS. Inside this file, we put the bios.exe that we need, as well as the dll we need. In my case it was oledlg.dll. I found it here: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?oledlg

Step 4

We start the PC from the USB port. In case your PC doesn't have an option to boot from USB do via Plop Boot Manager CD.

Windows will start loading, you choose the language and you will get a window titled "system recovery options". Choose the first option «use of tools of recovery...» "and click Next.

On the new window that opens, choose the last option named "command prompt". The command prompt opens. Type the following commands pressing on enter after each one:

c: (it replaces the C, i.e. the drive usbstick letter guest).

BIOS CD (it changes in the BIOS file, we have created)

BIOS.exe (he runs the bios.exe file we downloaded from the manufacturer's website to update our BIOS).

I hope that the BIOS window will open and you just follow the options to update your Bios. In my case I had to restart twice. In this case must boot from USB as well the second time.

That's how I updated my BIOS of N14Z of Dell from A02 to A06.

Notes:

-It is without saying that I take any responsibility in case something goes wrong with your laptop. I said just above how I did it in my laptop

-In case you have a friend who uses windows you can kindly ask him to use his computer for 5 minutes to create the rescue disk and the updated use the stick (without having to install windows on VB). I just had to mention the VB option to tell you how to do 100% on your own.

-Regarding the dll file: when I was experimenting with all the above, the first time that I actually run the bios.exe file in the command prompt I got an error message that the oledlg.dll is missing. So I found it via google, added even within the BIOS file and then the bios.exe work fine. In your case, it can ask another dll or dll. Act accordingly.

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