How do i "copy" one bios and "paste" it onto another identical machine
I have looked around for quite some time and had complete failure at finding this.
The Problem
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I've got a dozen or so identical IBM machines, each for whatever reason has different bios versions.
The IBM machines have bioses that cause the cd-roms to all but explode.
Cd-Rom after booting into a linux kernel does not work, read, or stop spinning.
I discovered one or two machines with a 2002 bios. This 2002 bios does not have this problem.
IBM has a bios archive that dates to 2003-2006, any version from 2003->2006 all have the problem without fail.
The Solition
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If I can get the working bios onto all the machines with an up-to-date and thus broken bios and downgrade them to the working 2002 version. I just need to copy the working bios and paste it onto the other machines.
The Rock in the Road
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Of what little bios information out there for linux, I cannot find one that can copy the bios first and then flash the image I copied. What little that I found assumed I had some existing bios file, which I don't have.
Any help?
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