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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