On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 10:55:46 Mike Cloaked wrote: > > If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware > > update flash that way it would be great! I will try that as it will be > > around the first thing I need to do before partitioning the drives and > then > > installing arch.... should be interesting! > > If I remember correctly, the issue was that the commands I needed to load > the > image from syslinux or grub weren't available from UEFI mode. I can't > quite > remember what I did in the end, I'm afraid. I think I ended up loading > memdisk from grub2 using the "linux" command, instead of "linux16" (which > wasn't available), and it just worked (surprisingly). Switching to BIOS > mode > and booting from a USB stick would probably have been a quicker solution. > > It was also complicated by the issue that my firmware utility was too big > for > a normal FreeDOS image. I ended up adding this to the Wiki for that: > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux#Images_that_are_too_large_for_a_floppy > > Paul > Thank you Paul - that is useful to know - though I don't think that in my case the firmware image is all that big - but at least I know the way forward if I have a problem with it. -- mike c
