Re: updating netbook bios
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:45:39 -0500 Corey wrote: On 06/11/2011 10:45 AM, David wrote: On 6/10/2011 10:45 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Hate to state the obvious, but have you tried just installing windows on a hard drive in the notebook, and executing the update from within windows? You might also try a BartPE boot/rescue CD (Windows): http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ I've run antivirus from these before. Corey Microsoft have just released a bootable antivirus, you could try it from. There's also a hirens boot cd. You should atleast be able to execute the file from freedos, though you may not have the parts in a particular freedos to flash via pci. As already suggested, check your usb filesystem is fat or fat32 or try copying it to the dos ramdisk.
Re: updating netbook bios
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: hi, Thanks for the quick reply. as far the usb stick is OK, you may put exe on its root directory then as you boot from CD, see USBstick it will be unable to reject it. OK. I copied the windows exe file to root dir of the USB stick. Still no go. The error message is: The command is not recognized Type HELP for a list of supported commands if possible use a fat32 or vfat format on the USBstick Hmm.. currently it USB stick is 06 DOS 32MB format. I'll see if I can find another spare one to reformat with fat32 (0x0b). to disable file permitions check. How does one do this? --patrick I hop it can work like that From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com Sent: Sat Jun 11 07:45:02 CEST 2011 To: misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: updating netbook bios So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 Toulouse France +33 6 17 230 820 +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
Re: updating netbook bios
Hi, you can create a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=USB I use it for BIOS updates and it works fine. kind regards, Robert On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:23:55 -0700 patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: hi, Thanks for the quick reply. as far the usb stick is OK, you may put exe on its root directory then as you boot from CD, see USBstick it will be unable to reject it. OK. I copied the windows exe file to root dir of the USB stick. Still no go. The error message is: The command is not recognized Type HELP for a list of supported commands if possible use a fat32 or vfat format on the USBstick Hmm.. currently it USB stick is 06 DOS 32MB format. I'll see if I can find another spare one to reformat with fat32 (0x0b). to disable file permitions check. How does one do this? --patrick I hop it can work like that From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com Sent: Sat Jun 11 07:45:02 CEST 2011 To: misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: updating netbook bios So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 Toulouse France +33 6 17 230 820 +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
Re: updating netbook bios
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Robert info...@die-optimisten.net wrote: Hi, you can create a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=USB earlier today I did look at freedos option. But I couldn't find info on their site on whether or not it would see the USB stick after booting off one of their ISO images. The link you provide is more promising as I can place the bios update image on the usb stick along with the bootable freedos image. But those steps require either a Linux or a Winblows box. Will have to wait 'til I get to the office on Monday. Thanks, --patrick I use it for BIOS updates and it works fine. kind regards, Robert On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:23:55 -0700 patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: hi, Thanks for the quick reply. as far the usb stick is OK, you may put exe on its root directory then as you boot from CD, see USBstick it will be unable to reject it. OK. I copied the windows exe file to root dir of the USB stick. Still no go. The error message is: The command is not recognized Type HELP for a list of supported commands if possible use a fat32 or vfat format on the USBstick Hmm.. currently it USB stick is 06 DOS 32MB format. I'll see if I can find another spare one to reformat with fat32 (0x0b). to disable file permitions check. How does one do this? --patrick I hop it can work like that From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com Sent: Sat Jun 11 07:45:02 CEST 2011 To: misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: updating netbook bios So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 Toulouse France +33 6 17 230 820 +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
Re: updating netbook bios
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:58 AM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Robert info...@die-optimisten.net wrote: Hi, you can create a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=USB earlier today I did look at freedos option. But I couldn't find info on their site on whether or not it would see the USB stick after booting off one of their ISO images. The link you provide is more promising as I can place the bios update image on the usb stick along with the bootable freedos image. But those steps require either a Linux or a Winblows box. Will have to wait 'til I get to the office on Monday. Thanks, --patrick I use it for BIOS updates and it works fine. kind regards, Robert On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:23:55 -0700 patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: hi, Thanks for the quick reply. as far the usb stick is OK, you may put exe on its root directory then as you boot from CD, see USBstick it will be unable to reject it. OK. I copied the windows exe file to root dir of the USB stick. Still no go. The error message is: The command is not recognized B Type HELP for a list of supported commands if possible use a fat32 B or vfat format on B the USBstick Hmm.. currently it USB stick is 06 DOS 32MB format. I'll see if I can find another spare one to reformat with fat32 (0x0b). to disable file permitions check. How does one do this? --patrick I hop it can work like that From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com Sent: Sat Jun 11 07:45:02 CEST 2011 To: misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: updating netbook bios So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 Toulouse France +33 6 17 230 820 B +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr Why don't you try downloading the iso file, and using something like growisofs to _add_ your bios update files into it, then burn it and run it. I did that when I needed to update my BIOS...
Re: updating netbook bios
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda acam...@verlet.org wrote: Why don't you try downloading the iso file, and using something like growisofs to _add_ your bios update files into it, then burn it and run it. Good idea! .. but ... I did that when I needed to update my BIOS... I would love to know how you did this. I have three new coasters that show the added files if mounted under OpenBSD, but not when booted into FreeDOS. --patrick
Re: updating netbook bios
On 6/10/2011 10:45 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Hate to state the obvious, but have you tried just installing windows on a hard drive in the notebook, and executing the update from within windows?
Re: updating netbook bios
On 06/11/2011 10:45 AM, David wrote: On 6/10/2011 10:45 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Hate to state the obvious, but have you tried just installing windows on a hard drive in the notebook, and executing the update from within windows? You might also try a BartPE boot/rescue CD (Windows): http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ I've run antivirus from these before. Corey
updating netbook bios
So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick
Re: updating netbook bios
hi, as far the usb stick is OK, you may put exe on its root directory then as you boot from CD, see USBstick it will be unable to reject it. if possible use a fat32 or vfat format on the USBstick to disable file permitions check. I hop it can work like that From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com Sent: Sat Jun 11 07:45:02 CEST 2011 To: misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: updating netbook bios So I have this gateway lt31 (someshit) netbook that hangs after random number of zzz/wake cycles. I posted on misc@ about it a few times and both Theo and Mike Larkin chimed in (privately) with advice and patches; Much appreciated, but the problem persists. So I had the genius idea that updating the bios may help the situation. The problem: The bios update is a zip file with one DOS and one Winblows executable. I don't have either OS. So I borrowed a Win XP and a Windows Server 2003 CD from friends. I am able to boot off both of them (using an external USB CDROM) and drop to a command prompt. This is in the hopes of executing the win .exe file off a USB stick. Recap: I boot off CD fine. I am able to drop to a command prompt OK. I am able to see the contents of the USB stick OK too. But I am unable to execute the damn executable off the USB stick. I can't CD into the directory they are in (error message: not allowed). I can DIR folder and get the listing of the directory/folder with the executables within it. If I supply the full path to the executable it doesn't run (I forget the exact error message -- I should've written it down before giving up). So the question I have is how can I update this netbook's bios? --patrick Cordialement Francois Pussault 3701 - 8 rue Marcel Pagnol 31100 ToulouseB FranceB +33 6 17 230 820 B +33 5 34 365 269 fpussa...@contactoffice.fr
