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.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Beeblebrox <zap...@berentweb.com> 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. > > Hoping I made sense here... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and > AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, > analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. > Visit us today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
