flash bios dos usb stick

[koder]

Are you absolutely certain that you need to flash your BIOS to get your
system to run?

I am running a Dell 530 with Ubuntu 8.04.
I can't believe that all of us are going to have to flash a BIOS update
to upgrade to 8.10.

What so you know that I don't?
What problems did you encounter that have brought you to this point?

HM



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
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To: tshipley at deru.com, Main PLUG discussion list
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Subject: Re: flash bios dos usb stick
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:58:37 -0700

His issue is the bios update util is a dos based application so it
needs to run in dos/windows/freedos.

i know there are some tools that will take floppy boot images and
reproduce them to usb devices turning it into a usb disk.. then you
cna get a freedos boot image from bootdisk.com and move from there.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Inspiron 530.
>
> Something in the last kernel upgrade really hosed the boot sequence.  I figure
> I can't start complaining until I have an up-to-date BIOS.
>
> On Wednesday 2009-02-25, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> Are you set on Gentoo?  [Other's are a bit more powerful?]
>> (Don't flame me, I have hand scripted gentoo builds [For AZWSX.COM] but
>> it's not the most secure distro or best for a pendrive)!
>>
>> Here's a fast Ubuntu (I have used):
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent
>>
>> Here's a nice Knoppix USB:
>> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-knoppix-510/
>>
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:41:35 -0800
>> From: trent_shipley at yahoo.com
>> Subject: Re: flash bios dos usb stick
>> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't even gotten to the moment of truth where I try to boot from the
>> usb stick.  I still need to get MBR, vfat-16, Grub, and FreeDOS all loaded
>> correctly.
>>
>> I actually did burn a CD, boot successfully into FreeDOS, and launch the
>> Dell BIOS flash package.  Then the BIOS flasher crapped out complaining
>> that it couldn't write back to a drive.  So I need to flash from a
>> read-write medium.
>>
>> From: Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> To: tshipley at deru.com; Main PLUG
>>  discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:32:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: flash bios dos usb stick
>>
>> I know this will depend on the bios i think and what order it places
>> yoru USB devices compared to your Hard disk device.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
>> > I am trying to build a bootable DOS memory stick so that I can flash my
>> > BIOS.
>> >
>> > The instructions (http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive)
>> > say:
>> >
>> > And finally, you can install GRUB :
>> > grub
>> > grub> device (hd5) /dev/sdb
>> > grub> root (hd5,0)
>> > grub> setup
>>
>>  (hd5)
>>
>> > grub> quit
>> > --------------------------
>> > The line:  grub> device (hd5) /dev/sdb
>> > is giving me trouble.
>> >
>> > I know that the stick is mounted at /dev/sdd  but I don't know how to
>> > find the value that goes in the (hd5) part of the command.
>> >
>> > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/grub_intro/
>> > suggests
>> >
>> > # grub
>> > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
>> >  (hd0,1)
>> >  (hd2,0)
>> >
>> > followed by
>> >
>> > grub> find (hd2,0)/boot/im<TAB>
>> > grub> find (hd2,0)/boot/images/
>> >
>> > but this has been decidedly unsuccessful.
>> >
>> >
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