I've just been experimenting with ways to backup and update my BIOS without windows, without a floppy, and without burning actual CD media. Google led me to this:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#GRUB2 It works great. I was able to make this grub2 menu entry: menuentry "Boot Freedos 1.1" { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos1' linux16 /syslinux/memdisk initrd16 /syslinux/FD11-144.IMG } It boots a freedos floppy image and from there I can access a FAT USB stick which has the BIOS utility and images on it. However, to get that /syslinux/memdisk boot image, I had to download the syslinux rpm and use rpm2cpio to extract it - all the info I could find in the fedora docs seem to indicate that actually installing the syslinux rpm will result in getting switched to the syslinux boot loader. It would be handy if this memdisk bit were a separate package that wouldn't interfere with my grub2 boot loader, but I could just use independently with grub2 like this. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
