chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > 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...
Well I feel lucky. I got a UPDFLASH.EXE and a b5500.bin. -- nothing fancy. I did convert the lowercase letters to uppercase booted and updated the BIOS. Slick! I can now boot the system from the SATA drives. Again thanks. Rod -- > > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
