On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:56, Roderick A. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >i said: >> 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). >> [...] >> 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?
like i said above--this is a kind of crippled image. if you know what you need to do you're fine, but it lacks even the 'copy con' ability to print a text file, much less run rename (ren). my bios update was a batch file that literally renamed a .sys file to a .exe and ran it with some flags, but the 'ren' command wasn't found and i couldn't read the batch file on the machine to figure out what went wrong... while there are other freedos images that have more commands, i could not find one larger than 2.44MByte that i could modify usefully. i was probably just doing it wrong, but after a few rounds of unetbootin and downloading i decided to just ask the lazyweb and found someone who could help. (actually lots of someones, but all of the other instructions i could find needed legacy grub that i was unwilling to install, since it wanted to remove the new grub to do so!) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
