From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 15:34:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB1937B547 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 15:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 216-164-222-165.s419.tnt4.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([216.164.222.165] helo=leegold1) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12tHp8-0001Sj-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 May 2000 18:34:23 -0400 Message-ID: <001101bfc2ab$aba22670$a5dea4d8@leegold1> From: "leegold" To: Subject: motherboard bios flash w/FreeBSD? Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:35:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Question: re: motherboard, here is quote from the bios readdme.txt for my (Abit VA6) motherboard: "Please be aware ! Flashing can not be completed under a Windows95/98 or Windows NT environment, you must be in a pure DOS environment" So, does that mean, that I should have a DOS partiton on the disk w/FreeBSD if I ever wanted to flash? Or, (I assume this would work(nah(?))), if I ever want to flash the bios I just could boot w/a dos boot floopy and then flash. But there would be no fat16 partitons on the disk itself - therefore what would happen - I couldnt boot to dos? I would have to have a dos partion? What do you think. Thanks sincerely. nota bene: http://www.abit.nl/english/product/va6.htm : the motherboard wwswite To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message