Auto BIOS / firmware upgrade ISO

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Gavin Hamill
> Sent: 24 August 2006 09:29
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: Auto BIOS / firmware upgrade ISO
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:30:30 +0200
> <Harald_Jensas at dell.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bootable CD's, Bootable Floppies?
> > 
> > I use MEMDISK from the SYSLINUX package and tell grub to boot the 
> > BIOS/FW flash floppy image.
> > 
> > No floppy, no CD's needed. :)
> 
> Sounds good - is there public documentation on how to do 
> this, using a Dell firmware update as an example?
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin
> 

Hi,

To set up GRUB to allow a user to boot a floppy image:

1. Copy the floppy image to /boot
2. Copy the memdisk file, usually it is in /usr/lib/syslinux, to /boot
3. Edit your GRUB config, add something like:
	title Firmware/BIOS Update
     		kernel /memdisk
		initrd /<imagename>.img
4. At boot select the "Firmware/BIOS Update".



Cheers,
Harald