Nowhere in that post does it say you are booting off the usb stick.
On Dec 26, 2010 6:07 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
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