[FC1], 2.6.8-rc2 kernel, new motherboard problems
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 22 11:41:36 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So am I. And one things a bit odd. I went to the Biostar site and
> grabbed the latest bios for that board, or so I thought, but after
> sticking it on a floppy (the bios builtin updater only looks on the
> floppy) and haveing this on the floppy:
>
> [root at coyote root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy
> total 958
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 31058 Oct 17 2000 awdflash.exe
> -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 54645 May 31 1994 command.com
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13 Mar 10 1994 config.sys
> -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 40774 May 31 1994 io.sys
> -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 38138 May 31 1994 msdos.sys
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 290816 Jul 21 14:59 ncd0311.bin
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Jan 21 2003 origbios.bin
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Sep 19 2002 Vib0919b.bin
>
> The bios updater cannot see the supposedly correct ncd0311.bin file.
> It was named .exe before but IIRC I had to rename the Vib0919b.exe to
> a .bin. Its also too big, so obviously something is missmatched.
> The last 2 files are those for the older M7VIB mobo, with the last one
> being the one that put the bios based updater in the bios so we don't
> have to run awdflash.exe first.
Gene,
Are you sure the .exe files were not self-extracting ZIPs? It's
unfortunate if that's the case as now you will need MS-DOS (with or
without the GUI).
Bob...
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