[PLUG] Upgrade SiI SATA RAID controller -- sans floppy drive

[Galen Seitz]

chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> like i said above--this is a kind of crippled image.  if you know what
> you need to do you're fine, but it lacks even the 'copy con' ability
> to print a text file, much less run rename (ren).
> 
> my bios update was a batch file that literally renamed a .sys file to
> a .exe and ran it with some flags, but the 'ren' command wasn't found
> and i couldn't read the batch file on the machine to figure out what
> went wrong...
> 
> while there are other freedos images that have more commands, i could
> not find one larger than 2.44MByte that i could modify usefully.  i
> was probably just doing it wrong, but after a few rounds of unetbootin
> and downloading i decided to just ask the lazyweb and found someone
> who could help.  (actually lots of someones, but all of the other
> instructions i could find needed legacy grub that i was unwilling to
> install, since it wanted to remove the new grub to do so!)

This is probably a bit out of date, but this old discussion might be 
useful.

"creating a bootable FreeDOS USB flash drive"
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2006-August/049545.html

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Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com