[Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 installed, I use it as a rescue drive I can add menu items however I like. I am able to boot into FreeDOS from grub2 this way: linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memdisk raw linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/FDOEM.144 When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file (FDOEM.144) are visible. All the tutorials I have found confirm this behaviour by instructions to add BIOS-update-files into the FDOEM.144 file, so that the BIOS update files become available in the memory-file environment. MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? This way, one would boot into FreeDOS from grub2, chdir to the folder route defined in the FreeDOS config.sys (?) and run the dos-biosupdate.exe. If this is possible, one would just copy the BIOS files into the defined folder and be done with it. Instead, with current definitions one mnust loop-mount FDOEM.144, copy the BIOS files into a sub-folder, unmount FDOEM.144 and copy it to the USB drive. Hoping I made sense here... -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
Hello! You can try to use flashrom (http://flashrom.org) utility for that. See download link http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/dos - version for DOS Best regards, Anton Kochkov. On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote: I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 installed, I use it as a rescue drive I can add menu items however I like. I am able to boot into FreeDOS from grub2 this way: linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memdisk raw linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/FDOEM.144 When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file (FDOEM.144) are visible. All the tutorials I have found confirm this behaviour by instructions to add BIOS-update-files into the FDOEM.144 file, so that the BIOS update files become available in the memory-file environment. MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? This way, one would boot into FreeDOS from grub2, chdir to the folder route defined in the FreeDOS config.sys (?) and run the dos-biosupdate.exe. If this is possible, one would just copy the BIOS files into the defined folder and be done with it. Instead, with current definitions one mnust loop-mount FDOEM.144, copy the BIOS files into a sub-folder, unmount FDOEM.144 and copy it to the USB drive. Hoping I made sense here... -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
Hi, On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote: I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 installed, I use it as a rescue drive I can add menu items however I like. When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file (FDOEM.144) are visible. MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? You can instead use an entire bootable USB disk of FreeDOS via RUFUS (or similar). Maybe you have a specific reason to only use GRUB2 here, but otherwise I think RUFUS is easiest. -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
Sorry, forgot the URL: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote: I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. You can instead use an entire bootable USB disk of FreeDOS via RUFUS -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
Thanks for the input My reason for using grub (or the boot-loader method) is because I find the concept of having an entire bootable usb of 1Gb used only for booting BIOS utilities and used 1% in capacity rather silly. By using grub, one can fully load the USB as a rescue disk with all sorts of tools (like aida, ranish, rescuedisk, NT-passwd-recover, inquisitor, etc, etc). If the same concept can be achieved with a bootloader other then grub, that would be fine also - but I have come across anything else which can smoothly handle iso-loopback like grub can. Regards. On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote: I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 installed, I use it as a rescue drive I can add menu items however I like. When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file (FDOEM.144) are visible. MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? You can instead use an entire bootable USB disk of FreeDOS via RUFUS (or similar). Maybe you have a specific reason to only use GRUB2 here, but otherwise I think RUFUS is easiest. -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
