-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Knoblauch wrote: > Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager". Main > problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other OS" to > create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide floppy > images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users.
You may be able to use this process to avoid using either a floppy drive or "the other OS": 1) Download the appropriate firmware exe from http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41008 (in my case, this looks like fwhd3313.exe) 2) Find a freedos disk image (I used one that came with biosdisk - http://linux.dell.com/biosdisk/) 3) Create a disk image for the firmware executable: cp /usr/share/biosdisk/dosdisk.img /tmp/fwdisk1.img mount -oloop /tmp/fwtemp.img /mnt/tmp cp fwhd3313.exe /mnt/tmp umount /mnt/tmp 4) Create a blank disk image for the extracted contents: dd if=/dev/zero of=/boot/fwdisk.img bs=1474560 count=1 5) Run qemu to extract files and write the disk image: qemu -fda /tmp/fwtemp.img -fdb /boot/fwdisk.img A:\>fwhd3313 ... exit qemu 6) Set up grub to boot the new disk image (requires memdisk from syslinux - http://syslinux.zytor.com/): $EDITOR /boot/grub/grub.conf title IBM Hard Drive Firmware update kernel /memdisk initrd=/fwdisk.img floppy 7) Reboot and select the "IBM Hard Drive Firmware update" option It allowed me to run the firmware update program, however it didn't believe my drive needed updating, so I haven't even successfully tried the entire process. Please let me know if it works for you. DISCLAIMER: I also provide no guarantees. Hopefully your hard disk won't fly off the spindle or anything else bad. If it does, blame someone else. Frank - -- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK Systems Manager, Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzX4MaI0dwg4A47wRAnXUAKCEsQQSj4aHkwMr8vZLei23+DhUuwCfb1Mb NTmyLHJDa602Iex/QAr/N2I= =fexM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/