[Lady Ada] recently posted a tutorial on burning the Arduino bootloader to standalone chips for those just getting started with the micro. The tutorial cites a common situation, where someone is ...

Last but not least, the bootloader firmware. This was done using an Arduino UNO working as master and the newly created the Arduino Nano clone as ... to UART converter to burn it and proceed ...

The Arduino IDE provides access to these through a function in tools called ‘Burn bootloader’ (available in the Tools menu). In proper Arduinos, this sets appropriate non-volatile flags and downloads ...