On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:51:36 -0500, Bob Cochran
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest
> BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a
> Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems
> to require a Windo
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Bob Cochran wrote:
>
> I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest
> BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a
> Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems
> to require a Windows or D
Hi. Others have created a BIOS-flashing FreeDOS floppy, so I know it can be
done. Might be easiest to create a bootable USB flash fob drive, and boot from
that with your BIOS flashing software. Be aware that USB drives often get
recognized on DOS as the c: drive, through legacy mapping.
jh
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Hi,
I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest
BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a
Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems
to require a Windows or DOS-based operating system to do the BIOS
flashing. Is there
Greetings, I wanted to try out FreeDOS on an old laptop where I have
replaced the HDD with a CF card. I am looking to avoid floppies/CDs
however, so I am wondering if anyone has an image that could be written to
the CF card that would then boot into FreeDOS. I`ve found that once I have
a b
To set the record straight on caches and on UIDE --
>> Can you recommend any free int 13 or block device based delayed/
>> pooled write caching software? As far as I can remember, all
>> "modern" (LBA compatible, given disk sizes on current PCs)
>> implementations of this are commercial.
>
> I
> yes you would see a problematic mismatch if you were to talk raw
> SCSI or CHS to a disk while being inconsistent about whether you use
> 512 byte or rather 4096 bytes per sector...
That's precisely the problem. Depending on which DOS programs you use, some
simply call DOS, some may use INT 25
>> I have started a VirtualBox HowTo in our FreeDOS wiki.
>> It is a sort of installation walkthrough with many pictures.
>>
>> It can be found here:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Installing_FreeDOS_in_VirtualBox
> That looks great, you've done an awesome job
Hi Bret,
yes you would see a problematic mismatch if you were to
talk raw SCSI or CHS to a disk while being inconsistent
about whether you use 512 byte or rather 4096 bytes per
sector...
However, when DOS "mounts" a partition with help of a
loadable block device driver, nothing would access the
Hi Bertho, trying to reiterate / re-explain my plan / idea:
>> By the way - a DRIVER could interface with any disk with
> any sector size and then just provide an int13 or int25/26 interface
> with 512 byte "sector" size for data transfer to DOS.
As explained in a longer mail this week, it actua
Re: 4K sector sizes, I realized today that UIDE, UIDE2,
and UIDEJR likely will NOT be affected at all --
1) DOS has a 64K-byte limit for read/write requests, in
fact 127 sectors of 512 bytes (the "UIDE" drivers do
accept 128). Since 4K-byte sectors "fit" into this
limit, no physical
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