Re: [flashrom] Fwd: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash

[Антон Кочков]

Please, attach exact/full logs of this error.

Best regards,
Anton Kochkov.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Beeblebrox  wrote:
> Hello. as follow-up to recent discussion with your mail list, I would like
> to share the following correspondence from the FreeDOS mail list.
>
> My Question re below info: Is it possible to use FLASHROM as advised below
> (USB drive) when infact it's not working from full OS environment? I think
> it is NOT possible, but want your confirmation.
>
> BTW, I also booted into Ubuntu-Linux and tried the same flash - I get the
> same err as I did from FreeBSD O/S.
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Beeblebrox  wrote:
> I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2
> installed, I use it as a rescue drive & I can add menu items however I like.
> I am able to boot into FreeDOS from grub2 this way:
>     linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memdisk raw
>     linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/FDOEM.144
> When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file
> (FDOEM.144) are visible. All the tutorials I have found confirm this
> behaviour by instructions to add BIOS-update-files into the FDOEM.144 file,
> so that the BIOS update files become available in the memory-file
> environment.
> MY QUESTION: Would it be possible to provide access from the FreeDOS
> mem-file environment to a folder on the USB drive? This way, one would boot
> into FreeDOS from grub2, chdir to the folder route defined in the FreeDOS
> config.sys (?) and run the dos-biosupdate.exe. If this is possible, one
> would just copy the BIOS files into the defined folder and be done with it.
> Instead, with current definitions one mnust loop-mount FDOEM.144, copy the
> BIOS files into a sub-folder, unmount FDOEM.144 and copy it to the USB
> drive.
>
> From: Антон Кочков 
> Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash
> To: [e-mail], "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
>
> Hello!
> You can try to use flashrom (http://flashrom.org) utility for that.
> See download link http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/dos - version
> for DOS
> Best regards,
> Anton Kochkov.
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