Updated to A17, used curl, cleanup.

020_grub_dell-bios-update.sh

@@ -1,31 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-cd /tmp
+# The bios for a dell D830, M4300 requires a bios disk for grub-imageboot
+cd /tmp || exit
 
 git clone http://github.com/dell/biosdisk
 
-cd biosdisk
+cd biosdisk || exit
 # dch -i --create
 
-cat > debian/changelog <<EOF
+cat >debian/changelog <<EOF
 biosdisk (1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Initial release. 
 
- -- MAINTAINER <default@devuan>  Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:51:23 +0000
+ -- MAINTAINER <default@devuan>  Tue, 22 Dec 2026 14:51:23 +0000
 EOF
 
 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
 sudo dpkg -i ../biosdisk_1.0_all.deb
 
-wget -c https://dl.dell.com/bios/M4300A15.EXE
-# wget -c https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER06318034M/1/M4300A17.exe
+# The dell bios download pages for  D830 and M4300
+# https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=nkwv6
+# https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=hw8kt
 
-sudo biosdisk install ./M4300A15.EXE
+# CURL_UAS="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0"
+DL_LINK="https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER06318034M/1/M4300A17.exe"
+DL_LINK="https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER01556726M/1/D830_A17.exe"
+BASENAME="$(basename $DL_LINK .exe)"
+curl -fsSLo "${BASENAME}.exe" "${DL_LINK}" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0"
 
 sudo mkdir -p /boot/images
 
-sudo cp /boot/M4300A15.iso /boot/images
+# load exe into an image, configure GRUB2 boot entry, set boot flag
+sudo biosdisk install -o "/nopause" ./"${BASENAME}.exe"
 
-sudo biosdisk uninstall ./M4300A15.EXE
+sudo cp /boot/"${BASENAME}.iso" /boot/images
+
+sudo biosdisk uninstall ./"${BASENAME}.exe"
 
 sudo apt-get install -y grub-imageboot