[ltp] updating bios on x60s: problem on image created

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 13:52:01 +0100, Xavi de Blas wrote:
> Hello, i want to update my bios on my x60s and following this page:
> 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series
> 
> Seems the approach1 is the suitable for me (have external CD) and seems safe.
> 
> I used the script convertlenovo.sh but the image created is not
> recognized at start
> (reads the CD, but says: "not system disk. replace..."). Wondering if
> i haven't burned ok the image,
> i checked that bios from lenovo iso, and out.iso are quite big:
> 
> ls -l *.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xavier xavier  4608000 2008-11-04 12:13 7buj26uc.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 xavier xavier 49905664 2008-11-04 13:30 out.iso
> 
> but if i mount out.iso:
> 
> sudo mount out.iso /mnt/usb_hdd/ -o loop
> 
> and i list contents:
> 
> ls -l /mnt/usb_hdd/
> total 2
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2008-11-04 13:30 boot.cat
> 
> is only 2KB length !!
> 
> what i am doing wrong?

I guess that the update files are inside the El Torito boot image, not
in the ISO filesystem, so you don't see anything if you just mount the
ISO filesystem.

Regards,
Tino