Hello,
I've been through the archives and and FAQ, along with a number of
other web pages, but it's still not clear to me how to create a bootable
USB stick with freedos.
My particular problem is that I have a mini-PC with no floppy inteface.
I'd like to flash the BIOS, and of course the manufact
reedos.pl":
sys-freedos.pl --disk=/dev/sdb
which reports: "not 512 bytes per sector"
What does this complaint mean?
Robert Urban
> This should work in "forced fdd" boot style. For "virtual zip" or "virtual
> harddisk" modes, you m
Tach Eric,
You wrote:
> > I tried the following:
> > - cleared any partition information:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8k count=2
um, well, it actually *was* necessary, as I had, in earlier attemps, munged
the old partition table :
> That would not have been necessary :-(.
>
Hi Eric,
Here's what I tried:
- fdisk /dev/sdb
-> set partition 1 to FAT12 and bootable
- dd of mbr.bin (from syslinux) to /dev/sdb
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
- create FAT12 filesystem on sdb1:
mkdosfs -F 12 /dev/sdb1
- create bootsector using your tool:
./sys-freedos.pl --disk=/dev/sdb
. I presume all the other USB- choices involve attaching the
actual hardware via USB.
cheers,
Robert Urban
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Hi Michael,
Michael Devore wrote:
> At 01:26 AM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote:
>
> >My BIOS seems to be pretty good. The choices are:
> >[the usual stuff, HDD-0,1,2,3; CDROM; SCSI; LS120; Floppy; etc]
> >USB-FDD
> >USB-ZIP
> >USB-CDROM
> >USB-HD
less do
what you describe, but via network rather than USB-stick. If you are
interested, I documented the method under:
http://www.unix-wissen.de/linux/BiosUpdate/index.html
Nevertheless I appreciate your suggestion, and will give it due consideration.
cheers,
Robert Urban
Bernd Blaau
Hi Michael,
You wrote:
> At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote:
>
> > >
> > > USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to
> > > choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works
> > for
>
"Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 9-feb-2005 17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Urban) wrote to
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>
> RU> Part of the reason I'm trying to make a USB-stick bootable is to be able
> RU> to hav
