"Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> wrote:
> 
> You can't reload the bios.  The bios controls booting from the floppy
> drive, so there's no way to reload it.  Chicken and egg problem.

True, but many systems require a valid checksum on the BIOS, or they
resort to running a hard-coded version that can at least handle reading a
new flash off of a floppy.

I ran into this one time..  I'm glad that it actually worked, or I
probably would have broken something either in the computer or in me..

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