[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Michael Trausch]

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Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Trey,
> 
> I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to
> upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large
> HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I
> need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need
> to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)
> 

Courtney,

You will want to use FreeDOS, outside of an emulator, to flash your
BIOS.  See the FreeDOS project at http://www.freedos.org/ - create a
boot floppy - or use the Boot CD-ROM - and put your BIOS flashing
stuff on a floppy and run it from there.  Make sure you boot clean -
e.g., with ZERO drivers.  And note, your floppy drive if you boot
from the CD-ROM will be drive B:.

If you do not trust FreeDOS, you can use one of the images at
http://www.bootdisk.com/ - although, I'm not sure of the legality.
I have used FreeDOS successfully to flash BIOS a few times before,
and I have (yet) to see it fail.  (*Knocks on Wood*)

	Later,
	Mike

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