[ltp] Bootable usb for bios upgrades

[Andrew Mason]

unetbootin also has  freedos as a selection


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> last year i tried freedos, and it did not work. the flash tool starts,
> but the flashing did not work.
>
> my fastest way to flash by bios is:
>
> - get a dos/windows boot floppy
> - start virtualbox, config the swap partition as harddrive
> - boot floppy
> - format the harddrive (swap partition)
> - sys c:
> - connect the BIOS CD ..
> - copy the CD ..
> - boot from now DOS partition..
>
> and in the end .. mkswap again
> this only works if your swap is a primary partition..
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>
>> On mer, 2009-04-15 at 19:07 -0400, Noah Dain wrote:
>>>
>>> I too have been trying to get a good flash usb boot system going too,
>>> which would include a dos partition (and hopefully some linux
>>> rescue-cd type distro on a live filesystem).
>>
>> Then you might want to try grml, which includes FreeDOS on its iso. (or
>> was it sysrescuecd, I don't remember)
>
>
>
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