On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > _______________________________________________ > >From the man page: mkdosfs can not create boot-able file systems. This isn't as easy as you might think at first glance for various reasons and has been discussed a lot already. mkdosfs simply will not support it ;) I need to study the blog post some more. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
