On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 17:30, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > i wrote:
>> http://rosenred.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/asus-eeepc-900-bios-update/ > > > OK. 10.04 is now installed. I made a bootable thumb drive using UNetbootin > and the iso I had. keen. > Now to update the BIOS. The link says to use a drive formated and bootable > in fat 16. I have been trying to figure out how to do that. i'd use mkdosfs -F 16 to make a fat16 filesystem. it is rather unlikely that unetbootin used fat16 since that's not so great for large partitions. I used > unetbootin to install freedos on a thumb drive, and it boots, but I do not > know how to find out what file format unetbootin used, and am uncertain what > to do with the BIOS file. Is the BIOS file an executable that DOS will know > how to launch? my reading of the blog post is that it is a bios file which the bios will load and know what to do with. i don't think you need dos (bootable or otherwise) anywhere in the equation. > What do you recommend? i've never updated a bios like yours before. all i know about how it will work is in that blog post. you might try asking this question on one of the eeepc users' forums or otherwise poke around in them--it is almost certain the question has come up more than once in the past. but i thought the blog post was pretty straightforward already, so your mileage my vary. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
