Comments on: BIOS flash upgrades on Linux http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/bios-flash-upgrades-on-linux/ Thoughts on running an Irish Linux business Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:07:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.1 By: admin http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/bios-flash-upgrades-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:36:32 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-1039 Hi Adam,

I think you’re constained to a maximum size of 2.88 MB for floppy images – I’m not sure how the BIOS would behave with a larger image. So I think you should look at creating a bootable iso (cdrom) image instead. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX contains some instructuions on how to use syslinux to boot a DOS floppy image although I haven’t tried them. On Windows, there are lots of different tools for creating DOS bootable ISO images – http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ has one approach but Google should turn up plenty more.

]]> By: AdamT http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/bios-flash-upgrades-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:00:31 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-1038 Great article, but do you happen to know how to make the disk image bigger? The disx image 1.44 megs and the bios I need to flash is over 4 megs, so its giving me a disk full error.

]]> By: smulcahy http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/bios-flash-upgrades-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:05:43 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-229 Hi Daniel,

It’s great to see Dell doing the right thing in this regard. I see it’s flagged as an Update Package for Red Hat Linux. How well does it work on other distributions? Good to see anyways, it’s a definite improvement.

-stephen

]]> By: Daniel http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/bios-flash-upgrades-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:28:59 +0000 http://atlanticlinux.ie/blog/?p=147#comment-228 Seeing as you’d love to hear about a BIOS flash utility that runs under linux, look no further than the section on Dell’s site for their PowerEdge servers. (http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/ and then select Servers -> PowerEdge -> any model number -> Linux OS -> BIOS. Adn you’ll find .BIN files that are runnable directly on the command-line. They also have a tool for automating the creation of FreeDOS images for their desktops and laptops (http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk)

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