, but via network rather than USB-stick. If you are
interested, I documented the method under:
http://www.unix-wissen.de/linux/BiosUpdate/index.html
Nevertheless I appreciate your suggestion, and will give it due consideration.
cheers,
Robert Urban
Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
Robert Urban schreef
Hi Michael,
You wrote:
At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote:
USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to
choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works
for
booting my USB stick here. But mine does boot up
Tach Eric,
You wrote:
I tried the following:
- cleared any partition information:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8k count=2
um, well, it actually *was* necessary, as I had, in earlier attemps, munged
the old partition table :
That would not have been necessary :-(.
-
Hi Eric,
Here's what I tried:
- fdisk /dev/sdb
- set partition 1 to FAT12 and bootable
- dd of mbr.bin (from syslinux) to /dev/sdb
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
- create FAT12 filesystem on sdb1:
mkdosfs -F 12 /dev/sdb1
- create bootsector using your tool:
./sys-freedos.pl
--disk=/dev/sdb
which reports: not 512 bytes per sector
What does this complaint mean?
Robert Urban
This should work in forced fdd boot style. For virtual zip or virtual
harddisk modes, you may have to do extra boot sector adjustments as
mentioned in my tool. For virtual CD or virtual
