Marcel Janssen wrote:
Hi,
After installing fedora on my system, I was no longer able to boot in windows
(or fedora). It seemed grub failed due to a bad BIOS, so I was in need for a
BIOS upgrade.
What makes you think it was your BIOS that caused the problem?
Please send us your grub.conf so we can see what it is. Also tell us
more about your computer. Age and BIOS type.
Since my machine didn't have a floppy drive and no OS to boot, I was looking
for other solutions.
The method that should have worked is downloading a freedos image, mount it,
copy it...add the flash utilility files and use mkisofs to create a new
image. Unfortunately in my case freedos failed to recognise my DVD drive
(probably BIOS related again) so I couldn't read the disk.
Fortunately I found that when booting freedos using the 'freedos only" option
that it could read my USB memory stick. So basically I could have upgraded my
BIOS just using the freedos iso image I got from the net. It worked out well
to upgrade the BIOS this way. The problem I have with all of this, is that
finding a solution like this takes far too much time. I hope there are better
ways to get the job done, but haven't been able to find it.
I wonder how other fedora users upgrade their BIOS when they need it and would
be happy to hear about other creative and preferably simple solutions (but
leaving the floppy drive on my dusty shelf).
regards,
Marcel
If you need an updated BIOS most will now read data on a cd-rom so
you can try that.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
