Re: Death of a Floppy, or BIOS Flash Help, or Booting DOS From USB

You need to create an El Torito CD image. mkisofs has support for this.
Check out http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/ and look at example #3.

Brian




On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:33:14PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> So I built a new Athlon64 XPC and have installed Ubuntu on it. It is
> working very well, though Shuttle managed to hose up the Gb ethernet
> implementation just a bit, requiring a BIOS flash to fix it. The problem
> is that I did not (and do not) want to install a Floppy drive on this box.
> 
> The BIOS flash is provided as an MS-DOS executable and a firmware image. I
> would like to be able to do one of the following:
> 
> - Boot from USB pen drive
> - Boot from CD-RW
> 
> I do have a dd'ed image from an MS-DOS bootable Floppy disk.
> 
> I can find lots of instructions on the net for installing bootable Linux
> distros, but can't locate any specific instructions for creating a
> bootable DOS image on USB or CD from Linux.
> 
> It would be nice if it were as simple as this, but I doubt it:
> 
> dd if=msdosdisk.img of=/dev/sda
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/
> cp biosupdate.exe /mnt/
> 
> I've never had luck creating a custom bootable CD, I find it funny that a
> Floppy image is required for it.
> 
> Has anyone done anything of this sort? I've seen Windows applications that
> let you update the BIOS from within the OS, are there any Linux native
> apps that compare? How do you handle BIOS/firmware updates, or how do you
> think they should be handled in a day when the Floppy drive needs to die?
> 
> - David A. Riggs
> 
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