Closing the bug as I prefer not to risk bricking my system to fix something that has an easy workaround (and rumour suggests the FreeDOS method no longer works with recent Dell BIOS updates: http://askubuntu.com/questions/100945/how-do-i-update-the-bios-of-a-dell-laptop/237742#237742).
Closing the bug as I prefer not to risk bricking my system to fix something that has an easy workaround (and rumour suggests the FreeDOS method no longer works with recent Dell BIOS updates: http:// askubuntu. com/questions/ 100945/ how-do- i-update- the-bios- of-a-dell- laptop/ 237742# 237742).