The embedded long-term support initiative

Unfortunately, those olden times are still here for pretty much everyone but Asus (who remain excellent). e.g. the Tyan mobo in my server has a DOS flashing program and can only boot from CD, hard drive, or floppy. The machine doesn't have a floppy drive, so in order to flash the BIOS I have to find a way to get DOS onto a bootable CD, then find a way to interact with a headless machine in order to run the flashing program and tell it to get going... and if it goes wrong there is of course no reversion mechanism at all.

But why would you want an error recovery mechanism on great big servers as good as the one on J Random Nobody's desktop? :(