biosdisk bug (was Bad command or firmware - "WIN1501263.EXE")

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:39:18AM +0200, Gustavo Narea wrote:
> Oh, sorry, I forgot to add that I get the error message in the subject when I 
> try to boot with the entry biodisk added to GRUB.
> 
>   - Gustavo.
> 
> On Friday September 5, 2008 01:36:32 Gustavo Narea wrote:
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade my BIOS with biodisk, but it mounts an image which
> > has 0% free space and then tries to write in it, so it fails. This is the
> > output I

Congrats, you found a bug in biosdisk. :-(

The BIOS file is 3.6MB.  The image it's being copied to is 1.44MB.
Not gonna fit.

Thanks for letting us know.  I'll ask someone to look at the biosdisk
code.

-Matt

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Matt Domsch
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