[ltp] BIOS-Update (R40)

[Didrik Pinte]

Le sam 29/05/2004 à 22:22, Marius Gedminas a écrit :
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:39:47PM +0200, Heiko Rosemann wrote:
> [... booting a floppy image with LILO ...]
> > > Details, please.
> > 
> > I just put
> > 
> > image = /boot/paud-1.0.3.img
> > label = parted
> > 
> > in my /etc/lilo.conf. That's it. Tried with both the memtest86 bootdisk and
> > the Parted And Utilities Disk image to be written to a floppy drive.
> > (paud.sourceforge.net, FYI) Didn't try this with a Microsoft-OS bootdisk,
> > IIRC, but I cannot see any reasons why this wouldn't work if it does work
> > with other systems and even the 'system-less' memdisk bootdisk.
> 
> Interesting.  I tried something like this once, when I had a floppy
> image that would create a hibernation file on my FAT32 partition, but I
> couldn't make it work.  I then decided that LILO was just chain-loading
> the boot record from the floppy image, and that the boot record itself was
> trying to access the floppy disk directly.  I finally gave up and burned
> a bootable CD-RW from that image.
> 
> All that was a while ago, so pehaps I was doing it differently.  It is
> quite possible that I dd'ed the floppy image to my swap partition and
> tried to use LILO's other=/dev/hdXX.  It never occurred to me to try
> image=, as that's so obviously only designed to work with Linux kernel
> images, isn't it?  ;-)
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> Marius Gedminas

Does that work with grub too ? Tested by someone ?

Didrik