Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
eric jackson wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
eric jackson wrote:
I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office so I don't know anything about them. Do you think it would be both possible to upgrade the bios through one of those methods? Would it be safe?
If not I guess I'll have to install Windows and do the upgrade and then reinstall LE 2005.
Eric
Check the file to see if unzip will expand it. A lot of these upgrades are self extracting .zip files. Others create a bootable floppy that does the upgrade. A program that will upgrade the BIOS while running Windows is a rare thing. (But I have run accross one...)
Mikkel
Thanks for your help.
I did get it to unzip. Then I copied it's files to a floppy but it won't boot under Mandriva.
Eric
Eric, In the files you extracted, or on the web site you got the files from there should be instructions on what to do. If not, here are generic instructions:
Download http://www.freepctech.net/files/wbiosboot.exe Unzip wbiosboot.exe - you should get wbiosboot.IMA Put a blank, formatted floppy in the floppy drive. Run "dd if=wbiosboot.IMA of=/dev/fd0" to put the image on the disk. Remove the disk, and put it back in so supermount will mount it properly, or run "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy". Copy the BIOS upgrade files to the floppy.
This turned out to be a problem because some of the files on wbiosboot have the same name as the BIOS upgrade files. I didn't think I should change anything because I assumed that some of the files might be dependent on something I changed.
Shutdown and reboot the system. Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from floppy. If the disk does not autostart the BIOS upgrade, then you will need to figure out the command to run.
As I mentioned in a reply just a few minutes ago, I may not need to do the BIOS upgrade. I wanted to do the upgrade because it is supposed to allow you to access larger hard drives. Looking at my drive in Diskdrake I discovered that all of the drive was there. My guess is the BIOS limited the size of the partition but the rest of the drive is there as an empty partition.
Thanks for your help.
Eric Jackson
Mikkel
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