chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 21:25, Roderick A. Anderson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Any suggestions or other "Rescue CD" that would run either a DOS or >> Windows flasher? > > weird question--i got paid to search for a solution for two hours today.
Lucky you. This was for a personal system. :-( > what i came up with was this: > > http://derek.chezmarcotte.ca/?p=188 It seems Silicon Images needs to address the non-floppy drive/non-Windows world. I spent two hours trying to figure out if it was something I did during the OS (MythDora) install or a bad card. Then another 2-ish hours searching for a solution followed by several attempts to find and download a Hiren's BootCD iso. > his boot img (a bargain at 97k gzipped) has 36MByte of room for your > flash util+files (but beware, this image has 0 dos utils, including > echo/rename). Excellent! I'll go sorting through my "I can't justify throwing this old technology away" box for a smaller USB stick. Heck it looks so useful I might just buy new and keep it in the tool kit. > i made it work to update a really recalcitrant supermicro motherboard > and there was much rejoicing. i had to do the renames manually but > that wasn't tough. Renames? Something to lookout for? \\||/ Rod -- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
