Auto BIOS / firmware upgrade ISO

Gavin Hamill gdh at acentral.co.uk
Thu Aug 24 10:40:37 CDT 2006


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:52:25 +0200
<Harald_Jensas at dell.com> wrote:


> 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".

What a great snippet - this is definately getting moved into 'Saved
Messages' :) Thanks for this!

Cheers,
Gavin.



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