Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Hello Bernd, Thank you so much for all your help with this. I need to practice the steps you list here, and I will start experimenting over the next few weeks. I really appreciate your taking the time to help me. I will try your method very soon on another device that could be flashed -- it is

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Well, what I want is to make a bootable SD-card with that same image... It is a standard isolinux image. Has anyone made that? Thanks, Alain Em 17-01-2012 22:49, Rugxulo escreveu: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: >> >>> You

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Alain, Thank you very much for this, I downloaded it. I'll play with it and see if I can get this BIOS flashing to work. It is clear that I need to develop technical knowledge of FreeDOS if I want to learn how to flash some motherboards properly. Again, many thanks! Bob On 1/17/12 7:12 P

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Op 18-1-2012 1:49, Rugxulo schreef: > http://www.fysnet.net/mtools.htm That's a *very* interesting link, thanks!. Bedtime now though. I wish DISKCOPY was able to handle different floppy image sizes (360KB.IMG to 1.44MB floppy for example, or backup a (SHSURDRV?) harddisk image uncompressed). Ki

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: > >> You can convert an existing bootable DOS floppy image into a .iso for >> burning to CD with the following (DOS) freeware tool: >> >> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/mkbiso.zip > > Does

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

Hi Jack, > Try to find any "Write Back" caches that do so much, for so little memory! Sure, it takes more memory. If it is not just local pooling within a few kB and with tiny timeout, it will take even more memory, for logics and extra security logics for writeback. But larger writes really he

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte > sectors

Hi Bertho, >>> a DRIVER could interface with any disk with any sector size and >>> then just provide an int13 or int25/26 interface with 512 byte >>> "sector" size for data transfer to DOS. > I'm not opposed to this method, which I see as a workaround rather > than a fully satisfying answer howe

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Ah, ok, next message :) Well, you can use mine :) 1) Grab this: 2) don't touch the COSMODAT dir... (no big deal, there is a password on sensitive files) 3) the FreeDOS/Disk is a perfect image of the boot disk, the CosmoDOS.i

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on installation and acpi

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:47:10 -0500, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 17-1-2012 4:31, TJ Edmister schreef: > >> I`m also wondering if it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a FAT16/32 >> partition alongside Windows NT4/2K/XP and add it to the Windows boot >> menu >> by pointing it to a file containing t

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Have you seen my mesage from *today* 5:27pm (gmt-2) Alain Em 17-01-2012 21:04, Bob Cochran escreveu: > Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for > creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and > experimentation and a successful method has not been p

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Op 18-1-2012 0:04, Bob Cochran schreef: > Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for > creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and > experimentation and a successful method has not been posted to the > FreeDOS wiki? The point of greatest interest is

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Alain, I would like to try your method. I did something like this a few months ago but evidently missed a step since my CD would not really boot. This was to enable flashing a BIOS update on a motherboard. Can you tell me the names of all the files needed in your step 7? Perhaps I missed a fil

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and experimentation and a successful method has not been posted to the FreeDOS wiki? The point of greatest interest is what files are needed on the CD, exactly (in

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Op 17-1-2012 20:27, Alain Mouette schreef: > I have done this some time ago, it may help. It is for CD, but it would > be nice to convert it to SD-card... Alain, thanks for your explicit instructions, they're very clear..if running Linux :) Some pre-made images seem available already from: [ htt

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

Op 17-1-2012 18:48, Jack schreef: > SCSI disks are rarely seen on PCs, due to their high disk and controller > cost. USB disks are also rarely seen, since they are not-yet reliable, > nor in many cases are they fast-enough to replace hard disks. SATA/IDE > "own" the hard-disk market and probab

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

Op 17-1-2012 18:48, Jack schreef: >> Also, FWIW, you can disable write-delay caching in SMARTDRV if you want, >> in which case it works sort of like UIDE or LBACACHE (except that it >> will also _natively_ work with non-INT 13h disks like USB and SCSI), but >> at the expense of requiring more memo

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

I have done this some time ago, it may help. It is for CD, but it would be nice to convert it to SD-card... Alain Em 15-06-2011 11:51, Alain Mouette escreveu: > > How can I make a big (6Mb) bootable image to use in the CD? > This is the only part of the CD that I can read on *any* machine, I am

[Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte > sectors

In reply to : Eric Auer > Hi Bertho, trying to reiterate / re-explain my plan / > idea: Fine ! >> a DRIVER could interface with any disk with >> any sector size and then just provide an int13 or int25/26 interface >> with 512 byte "sector" size for data transfer to DOS. > As explained in a lo

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: > You can convert an existing bootable DOS floppy image into a .iso for > burning to CD with the following (DOS) freeware tool: > > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/mkbiso.zip Does this work for any size floppy image or only 1.44MB? In principle BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on installation and acpi

Op 17-1-2012 4:31, TJ Edmister schreef: > > Greetings, I wanted to try out FreeDOS on an old laptop where I have > replaced the HDD with a CF card. I am looking to avoid floppies/CDs > however, so I am wondering if anyone has an image that could be written to > the CF card that would then boot into

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

> I knew this would provoke a comment from you, Jack. Yes, you always were a "provoker", weren't you, Bret? > The purpose of a cache is to put as much data in RAM as it can, so that > the disk is accessed as little as possible. It's true that the cached > data does eventually get written to

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

> ... > No "cache" will ever compete with a RAM disk. RAM is always faster > than disks with their seek/rotational latencies and their much > slower transfer rates. I knew this would provoke a comment from you, Jack. The purpose of a cache is to put as much data in RAM as it can, so that the d