[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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