Hello,
I fixed it real good.
I bought a Lenovo TS130 ThinkServer about 5 or 6 years ago. Folks told me, RHEL/CentOS would not run on this server.
I bought it and installed it and it works fine.
So, a couple weeks ago, I decided to upgrade the memory. At the time, the bios only supported 16GB but it would be upgradable to 32GB.
So, I started adding memory and figured I needed to upgrade the bios so I could get to 32GB.
I got through 2 updates with rufus 2.11 and FreeDOS. Both installed with no problems.
On the third upgrade, my USB flash drive is no longer recognized as a boot device. The fourth bios upgrade is a shell script run from RHEL which the support was also added later. I tried that first but it didn't work. Didn't get any errors, it just didn't work.
Lenovo says use rufus 2.2 which supports MS-DOS. I can't get that version to create a bootable USB drive. It fails.
I have tried .iso images and adding the bios files to it for a bootable DVD/CD. It boots but can't find the bios files. A dir of the DVD shows the flash.bat.
I've tried plopt and a couple others.
I'm stuck!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
On the third upgrade, my USB flash drive is no longer recognized as a boot device. The fourth bios upgrade is a shell script run from RHEL which the support was also added later. I tried that first but it didn't work. Didn't get any errors, it just didn't work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You might try one of the boot disks at http://bootdisk.com. They also have info on how to create them.
Hope this helps, Barry
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:48 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: I fixed and it wasn't broken
On the third upgrade, my USB flash drive is no longer recognized as a boot device. The fourth bios upgrade is a shell script run from RHEL which the support was also added later. I tried that first but it didn't work. Didn't get any errors, it just didn't work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You might try one of the boot disks at http://bootdisk.com. They also have info on how to create them.
Hope this helps, Barry
[Thomas E Dukes] Thanks, Barry,
I tried that one as well. I tried making one from Win98 sources I found. As well as everything on pendrivelinux.