On 8/25/13, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
Hi Rugxulo, Zaphod ;-)
Personally, I would not want to access USB while flashing: In
that sense, using a virtual boot floppy in RAM feels safer, so
my preference would also be GRUB. Note that you can make that
virtual floppy 2.88 MB instead of
This tutorial seems to be showing how to do exactly what I am talking
about: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/3612.html
At the very bottom, the author states:
his gave me the disk geometry and highlighted that there was a 0.2GB FAT
device on /dev/sda1 - my pen drive. Then mount
Hi!
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/3612.html
This tutorial is from 2006... It describes how to use some Windows
tool for making a stick bootable with DOS after providing FreeDOS
files to use for that... Still a valid method to do, but does not
mean that a specific kernel version
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,
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
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
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
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
