Flash BIOS without a Floppy Drive (nothing to do with the original thread topic)
Felix Miata
mrmazda at ij.net
Sun Feb 22 19:44:12 UTC 2004
Nobody's likely to find in the archives how to flash a BIOS in a thread
with an irrelevant subject like "Giving up on Linux...".
Andy Green wrote:
> I did this several months ago, so I am afriad it is not all fresh in my brain,
> but the steps were something quite like the following:
> - Insert your working boot floppy into a machine with a floppy
> - dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img
> (not sure if you need to give a size there, if so append count=1440000 I think)
> - you should end up with a 1.4MB file floppy.img
> - mkisofs -b floppy.img -o cdrom.iso
> - creates cdrom.iso which you can burn in your favourite way
> The result definitely works okay since I reused my DOS booting CDR earlier
> today to update the BIOS on this machine.
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