Please, attach exact/full logs of this error. Best regards, Anton Kochkov.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Beeblebrox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. as follow-up to recent discussion with your mail list, I would like > to share the following correspondence from the FreeDOS mail list. > > My Question re below info: Is it possible to use FLASHROM as advised below > (USB drive) when infact it's not working from full OS environment? I think > it is NOT possible, but want your confirmation. > > BTW, I also booted into Ubuntu-Linux and tried the same flash - I get the > same err as I did from FreeBSD O/S. > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Beeblebrox <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 > installed, I use it as a rescue drive & I can add menu items however I like. > I am able to boot into FreeDOS from grub2 this way: > linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memdisk raw > linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/FDOEM.144 > When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file > (FDOEM.144) are visible. All the tutorials I have found confirm this > behaviour by instructions to add BIOS-update-files into the FDOEM.144 file, > so that the BIOS update files become available in the memory-file > environment. > MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS > mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? This way, one would boot > into FreeDOS from grub2, chdir to the folder route defined in the FreeDOS > config.sys (?) and run the dos-biosupdate.exe. If this is possible, one > would just copy the BIOS files into the defined folder and be done with it. > Instead, with current definitions one mnust loop-mount FDOEM.144, copy the > BIOS files into a sub-folder, unmount FDOEM.144 and copy it to the USB > drive. > > > From: Антон Кочков <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash > To: [email protected], "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > <[email protected]> > > > Hello! > You can try to use flashrom (http://flashrom.org) utility for that. > See download link http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/dos - version > for DOS > Best regards, > Anton Kochkov. > > > _______________________________________________ > flashrom mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
