[PLUG] eee pc 900 original disks?

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 02:06:51 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:44 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 17:30, Denis Heidtmann
> <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i wrote:
>
> >> http://rosenred.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/asus-eeepc-900-bios-update/
> >
> >
> > OK.  10.04 is now installed.  I made a bootable thumb drive using
> UNetbootin
> > and the iso I had.
>
> keen.
>
> > Now to update the BIOS.  The link says to use a drive formated and
> bootable
> > in fat 16.  I have been trying to figure out how to do that.
>
> i'd use mkdosfs -F 16 to make a fat16 filesystem.  it is rather
> unlikely that unetbootin used fat16 since that's not so great for
> large partitions.
>
>
> I used
> > unetbootin to install freedos on a thumb drive, and it boots, but I do
> not
> > know how to find out what file format unetbootin used, and am uncertain
> what
> > to do with the BIOS file.  Is the BIOS file an executable that DOS will
> know
> > how to launch?
>
> my reading of the blog post is that it is a bios file which the bios
> will load and know what to do with.  i don't think you need dos
> (bootable or otherwise) anywhere in the equation.
>
> > What do you recommend?
>
> i've never updated a bios like yours before.  all i know about how it
> will work is in that blog post.  you might try asking this question on
> one of the eeepc users' forums or otherwise poke around in them--it is
> almost certain the question has come up more than once in the past.
> but i thought the blog post was pretty straightforward already, so
> your mileage my vary.
> _______________________________________________
>

>From the man page:

 mkdosfs  can  not  create  boot-able  file systems. This isn't as easy as
you might
       think at first glance for various reasons and has been  discussed  a
 lot  already.
       mkdosfs simply will not support it ;)

I need to study the blog post some more.

-Denis



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