Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:53:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: motherboard bios flash w/FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005201852520.19594-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <001101bfc2ab$aba22670$a5dea4d8@leegold1>
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I'm not positive but I believe that you could just boot a dos floppy, and as long as the flasher fits on one disk, you could flash the bios. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sat, 20 May 2000, leegold wrote: > Question: > > re: motherboard, here is quote from the bios readdme.txt for my (Abit VA6) > motherboard: > "Please be aware ! Flashing can not be completed under a Windows95/98 or > Windows NT environment, you must be in a pure DOS environment" > > So, does that mean, that I should have a DOS partiton on the disk w/FreeBSD > if I ever wanted to flash? > > Or, (I assume this would work(nah(?))), if I ever want to flash the bios I > just could boot w/a dos boot floopy and then flash. But there would be no > fat16 partitons on the disk itself - therefore what would happen - I couldnt > boot to dos? I would have to have a dos partion? > > What do you think. Thanks sincerely. > > nota bene: http://www.abit.nl/english/product/va6.htm : the motherboard > wwswite > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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