Rich, Is the file on the flash drive an ISO image? If so, try the external USB CDROM Drive. If it does not work, you have lost nothing.
Ken On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > A while ago I bought a Dell Optiplex 360 from FreeGeek and I'm now > starting to configure it as a backup server/workstation. The current BIOS > version is A02 (from 2009) and I downloaded the A06 (2011) version and put > that on my bootable DOS USB flash drive. > > In the Dell BIOS configuration's boot drive sequence there is no option > for an external USB device. The only two options are > 1 Internal or external USB cdrom drive > 2 Internal SATA hard drive > > I tried to add a third option of external USB drive but no joy there. How > can I upgrade the BIOS using DOS if the system will not recognize the thumb > drive as present and bootable? > > If you've upgraded the BIOS on a Dell desktop from a USB thumb drive > please share with me how you accomplished this. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
