Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:43:40 +0200 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick Message-ID: <4476250C.1020005@lvor.halvorsen.cc> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20060525152314.02665c20@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <447607A4.5090708@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <6.0.0.22.2.20060525152314.02665c20@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Derek Ragona wrote: > go to bootdisk.org and download a suitable verision. There are many > floppy images there. For instance the win98 diskette version, when > booted creates a ramdrive you can switch to, then change the usb disk. > Or boot with two usb drives inserted, the bootable one and the one with > the BIOS flash utility. Will DOS be able to load USB devices? I thought this only worked when I booted off the device using some BIOS magic. > Or use a winpe bootable CD. You can find one and information at: > http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ You can customize the image you build > including your Windows BIOS utility. This requires Windows, I think. > Or buy or borrow a USB floppy drive. Bah! I'd rather not buy new hardware just for this one predicament. This is what I have readily available: - Computer running FreeBSD - USB CDRW-drive - 512 MiB USB flash drive - A 1.44 MiB FreeDOS floppy image with 111 kiB free space - A FreeDOS iso9660 image - A 784 kiB DOS executable for flashing my BIOS Using these I need to make some sort of bootable DOS device (either CD or USB flash drive) that contains the above mentioned BIOS upgrade utility. Could I either: - Get the BIOS utility onto the ISO file without braking the boot code - Use the floppy image to make a bootable USB disk somehow? Svein Halvor [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: mailto:pgpkey@svein.halvorsen.cc to get my PGP-key iD8DBQFEdiUNhQg3vZGYu0ARAuF6AKC8NlhRv5ohE6a5EoTcvR9Sa5ifNQCglpHI Sqrchw2yu2cKkChhDT4o4Y0= =t0o3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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