If you are thinking of some USB boot media instead of getting a 2nd HD:
- booting from USB is only supported with BIOS version 08LA.
- the BIOS updater won't run from any Windows PE media for whatever reason
It would be nice if BIOS flashing could become part of the Linux kernel and / or the vendors would support Linux in their BIOS update tools or at least offer some bootable CD for BIOS updates.
in addition:
If you are thinking of some USB boot media instead of getting a 2nd HD:
- booting from USB is only supported with BIOS version 08LA.
- the BIOS updater won't run from any Windows PE media for whatever reason
It would be nice if BIOS flashing could become part of the Linux kernel and / or the vendors would support Linux in their BIOS update tools or at least offer some bootable CD for BIOS updates.