Ubuntu bios upgrade problem in Dell laptop












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I am trying to upgrade the bios version from A06 to A09 on Inspiron 15R 5537. I have created a bootable usb stick of freedos, tried to run the bios driver but it does not seem to work.



I approached the upgrade in following way:




  • Made a bootable FreeDOS USB stick with unetbootin.

  • Copied the Dell BIOS executable file to the USB stick

  • Inserted the USB stick in a USB 2 port and booted the laptop with F12 pressed

  • In the BIOS I selected the USB stick and booted FreeDOS

  • Executed the BIOS upgrade file.


Then I got the following output and no BIOS upgrade:



C:>A09.exe
Reading file...
Flash package mode.
Option: -ecb -bios
DOS memory buffer 2 allocate failed.
C:>


Any pointers?









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    I am trying to upgrade the bios version from A06 to A09 on Inspiron 15R 5537. I have created a bootable usb stick of freedos, tried to run the bios driver but it does not seem to work.



    I approached the upgrade in following way:




    • Made a bootable FreeDOS USB stick with unetbootin.

    • Copied the Dell BIOS executable file to the USB stick

    • Inserted the USB stick in a USB 2 port and booted the laptop with F12 pressed

    • In the BIOS I selected the USB stick and booted FreeDOS

    • Executed the BIOS upgrade file.


    Then I got the following output and no BIOS upgrade:



    C:>A09.exe
    Reading file...
    Flash package mode.
    Option: -ecb -bios
    DOS memory buffer 2 allocate failed.
    C:>


    Any pointers?









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      I am trying to upgrade the bios version from A06 to A09 on Inspiron 15R 5537. I have created a bootable usb stick of freedos, tried to run the bios driver but it does not seem to work.



      I approached the upgrade in following way:




      • Made a bootable FreeDOS USB stick with unetbootin.

      • Copied the Dell BIOS executable file to the USB stick

      • Inserted the USB stick in a USB 2 port and booted the laptop with F12 pressed

      • In the BIOS I selected the USB stick and booted FreeDOS

      • Executed the BIOS upgrade file.


      Then I got the following output and no BIOS upgrade:



      C:>A09.exe
      Reading file...
      Flash package mode.
      Option: -ecb -bios
      DOS memory buffer 2 allocate failed.
      C:>


      Any pointers?









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      I am trying to upgrade the bios version from A06 to A09 on Inspiron 15R 5537. I have created a bootable usb stick of freedos, tried to run the bios driver but it does not seem to work.



      I approached the upgrade in following way:




      • Made a bootable FreeDOS USB stick with unetbootin.

      • Copied the Dell BIOS executable file to the USB stick

      • Inserted the USB stick in a USB 2 port and booted the laptop with F12 pressed

      • In the BIOS I selected the USB stick and booted FreeDOS

      • Executed the BIOS upgrade file.


      Then I got the following output and no BIOS upgrade:



      C:>A09.exe
      Reading file...
      Flash package mode.
      Option: -ecb -bios
      DOS memory buffer 2 allocate failed.
      C:>


      Any pointers?







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