[TriLUG] OT: BIOS repair

[John Broome]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Steve Hoffman <srhoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased a Dell XPS Gen 4 desktop for a pretty good price on
> Ebay.  It arrived yesterday and I was preping to install FC9 on it and
> figured since it came to me with windows, now was the best time to upgrade
> firmware since dell doesn't ship a linux version.

I've never had to flash a bios to get linux to work.  I think you
should have tried loading F9 on it first.