Will the move to UEFI bioses result in the destruction of the DOS boot disk?

[VirtualLarry]

How will we flash our BIOSes and cards from DOS, if you cannot boot DOS anymore? What will we do? Trust Windows-based flashers? *shudder* The horrors!

 

[Rifter]

How will we flash our BIOSes and cards from DOS, if you cannot boot DOS anymore? What will we do? Trust Windows-based flashers? *shudder* The horrors!

I sure as hell hope not, would never update my bios if that was the case. Maybe if there was a good linux bios flashing program i would trust linux over windows.

 

[Dahak]

I would think that they would build in there onboard flash tools that they have now to allow flashing.

another possibility is they could include the compatibility program/core (not sure what its called) to allow booting from dos/legacy oses, ala bootcamp on the mac

 

[Ross Ridge]

How will we flash our BIOSes and cards from DOS, if you cannot boot DOS anymore? What will we do? Trust Windows-based flashers? *shudder* The horrors!

I'd be surprised if there are many UEFI BIOSes that can't boot MS-DOS, as they'll still need to support the legacy BIOS interfaces so they can boot other operating systems that don't support UEFI like the 32-bit version of Windows 7.

Eventually you'll probably see UEFI-based flashers, assuming they don't have them already.