[ltp] BIOS upgrade

[Tod Harter]

As I recall from playing around with a 380 you only need DOS for the BIOS 
flash, not windows. I don't think wine would even work since it doesn't 
really do DOS emulation... I can virtually promise you that vmware won't be 
able to talk to the necessary hardware, it doesn't really ever have direct 
hardware access at all, everything is an emulation provided by the virtual 
machine on top of the host operating system's services.

Personally I'd be very leary of using FreeDOS for anything like this. I've 
used it a good bit, and frankly its not really all that stable when it comes 
to hardware access... You can run simple DOS programs with it, but I think 
you'd be pushing your luck with this kind of thing.

On Monday 23 December 2002 09:30 am, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 14:59:01 +0100, sebastian sauer wrote:
> > On Monday 23 December 2002 02:57, Mike Leone wrote:
> > > Errikos Pitsos (ml1@xerx.com) had this to say on 12/22/02 at 20:46:
> > > > Tell a friend to make you a boot disk, that's what I did.
> > >
> > > Or make one yourself from <http://www.bootdisk.com>, perhaps. I think
> > > some of those images are WinIMage compatable, so you could just dd
> > > them.
> >
> > thanks for the hints!
> >
> > however i would favor something that completely avoids this M$ win/dos
> > shit. besides a boot disk floppy isn't really an option as my R31 has no
> > floppy drive. sure, i still could make a FAT32 partition on /dev/hda but
> > i'd prefer not to.
> >
> > IIRC there are various GPL'ed pieces of code that do the BIOS flashing on
> > x86 linux systems. but these require that you have the BIOS update as raw
> > image, while the BIOS provided by IBM is some warped up DOS package. :-(
> >
> > i'd appreciate any pointers or hints in that direction.
>
> Maybe FreeDOS also works for a BIOS upgrade. This way you can avoid
> using M$ crap. I have a little FAT16 partition on my TP for the
> hibernation file and for things like ps2.exe or BIOS upgrades.
>
> Regards,
> Tino

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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain