DOS boot disk (for flashing BIOS)?
Christopher J. Bottaro
cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu
Fri Dec 17 16:51:48 UTC 2004
Deron Meranda wrote:
> Finally.... COMPLAIN. I know I've sent messages off to
> hardware/motherboard manufacturers several times complaining that
> their hardware is Linux-unfriendly because of their BIOS update
> assumptions. For all the smart engineers doing all the electronics,
> there sure seem to be an abundance of them making aweful websites and
> support software. Also send thank you's to those companies that do it
> right.
Will do...and thanks for the rest of your post, it helped a lot.
Dag Wieers wrote:
> You don't actually need a floppy-drive or a floppy to boot this image. You
> can use memdisk to boot from this image directly. Just add a grub or lilo
> entry, and use memdisk as the kernel and your bootdisk image as the
> initrd.
Cool, thanks for the tip.
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