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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: Lambeth on April 28, 2019, 02:14:51 pm

Title: Update SeaBIOS (on Deciso Netboard A10)?
Post by: Lambeth on April 28, 2019, 02:14:51 pm

Hello

I have a "Desktop & Wallmountable" firewall which I bought from [applianceshop.eu] (https://www.applianceshop.eu/security-appliances/security-appliances-desktop-and-wallmountable/opnsense-based-desktop-11.html) a few years ago.

The bios on the device is somewhat old now and I'm thinking about updating it, currently it seems to be SeaBIOS version 1.7.5-20141105_115023-ubuntu.


Some questions:

• Would there be any benefits in updating the bios?
  Of course it's always nice to have up-to-date software just for its own sake, but should I expect there to be any real/actual benefits I could notice?

• How would an update be performed?

• Is it risk-free to try updating the bios... or could there be a risk that the hardware gets bricked?

• Has anyone here got experience doing a more-or-less similar update? Perhaps even updating on this exact hardware?

Thanks for your help  :)

Below is an excerpt from the boot of my firewall which shows some information:

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SeaBIOS (version 1.7.5-20141105_115023-ubuntu)
Found mainboard Deciso Netboard A10
Relocating init from 0x000e76b9 to 0xbf0e5df0 (size 41283)
Found CBFS header at 0xfffffc50
boot order:
1: /pci@i0cf8/*@14,7
2: /pci@i0cf8/*@11/drive@0/disk@0
3: /pci@i0cf8/*@11/drive@1/disk@0
4: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@2
5: /pci@i0cf8/usb@13,2/usb-*@1
6: /pci@i0cf8/usb@12,2/usb-*@1
...