On 05/17/2010 04:16 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/16/2010 10:26 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> I'm trying to figure out how to get FreeDOS to see my CD drive so I can >> do the BIOS update from within FreeDOS. It says it cannot open client >> CD-ROM device driver "FDCD0000" and SHCDX33A cannot load. >> > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml > > Use the "biosdisk" script that Dell provides. The "install" variant > will create a FreeDOS image and configure your system to load it using > GRUB. You'll be able to boot that image and flash your BIOS. > Well yes it will, but the install option is trying to build a floppy disk image (size=1,474,560 bytes.) The actual size of the BIOS update that I need to flash is 2,966,440 bytes. So invoking biosdisk will result in this error at the second CP instruction: [root@deafeng29 ~]# biosdisk install --title=Dell_BIOS_UP /home/rlc/Downloads/E6400A20.EXE + mkdir -p /tmp/biosdisk + cp -f /usr/share/biosdisk/dosdisk.img /tmp/E6400A20.img + mount -t vfat /tmp/E6400A20.img /tmp/biosdisk -o loop + cp -f /home/rlc/Downloads/E6400A20.EXE /tmp/biosdisk cp: writing `/tmp/biosdisk/E6400A20.EXE': No space left on device + echo 'E6400A20.EXE ' + unix2dos /tmp/biosdisk/autoexec.bat + umount /tmp/biosdisk + rm -rf /tmp/biosdisk + '[' '' == 1 ']' + '[' 0 == 1 ']' + '[' 0 == 0 ']' + echo 'Creating BIOS floppy image at /tmp/E6400A20.img' Creating BIOS floppy image at /tmp/E6400A20.img + '[' 1 == 1 ']' + install + local kernel=/boot/memdisk + '[' -z Dell_BIOS_UP ']' ++ dirname /tmp/E6400A20.img + '[' /tmp '!=' /boot ']' + cp -f /tmp/E6400A20.img /boot ++ basename /tmp/E6400A20.img + destination=/boot/E6400A20.img + /usr/sbin/blconf --title=Dell_BIOS_UP --add-kernel=/boot/memdisk --add-initrd=/boot/E6400A20.img + echo 'Copied image to /boot/E6400A20.img and updated bootloader' Copied image to /boot/E6400A20.img and updated bootloader + '[' 0 == 1 ']' + '[' 0 == 1 ']' I'll check Dell's older BIOSes for the E6400 to make sure they really are larger than legacy floppy sized. Maybe I can make the image size a bit bigger....by 1491880 bytes.... Bob -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
