[PLUG] SATA II, mdadm and soft power off

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Sun May 13 18:48:57 UTC 2007


Jason Martin wrote:
> On 5/13/07, Russell Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> wrote:
>> m0gely wrote:
>> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm amazed that Abit evidently thinks their motherboards are used in
>> >> computers that have floppy drives.
>> >
>> > Pretty much all boards do, it's not just ABIT.  There may be one or
>> > two out there, but you have to do offline BIOS updates somehow.  You
>> > could probably make a DOS bootable CD with the BIOS update on it and
>> > do it from there too.  You won't be able to backup the old BIOS,
>> > though most don't anyway.
>> >
>> Usually, a USB thumb drive will work as well.
> 
> Indeed, most modern systems will boot from USB mass storage (and even
> emulate a floppy device), so it is handy to keep a bootable USB drive
> around with syslinux and a couple different boot options, including
> DOS.  It is a little tricky to get set up at first, but you pretty
> much just have to do it once.

Here's an old message of mine describing how to put a bootable FreeDOS 
on a USB flash drive.

http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2006-August/049545.html

galen



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