[CentOS] OT: BIOS upgrades and booting without a floppy drive
David Thompson
thomas at cs.wisc.edu
Tue Aug 23 13:38:34 UTC 2005
Bart Schaefer wrote:
>I see there's a D865GBF BIOS upgrade on the Intel site, dating from
>May. Problem is it comes only as either a Windows installer, or a
>bootable floppy -- and not only does this machine not have a floppy
>drive, but the case configuration is such that the DVD-ROM drive
>blocks access to the floppy connector on the motherboard, so I'm
>looking at minor surgery just to stick one in temporarily.
>
>Is there any clever way around this? Some way to make a bootable CD
>from the floppy image, for example? Or must I grit my teeth and bring
>out the screwdrivers?
If you're set up to do PXE, you can boot a floppy image over the network via
PXELINUX/MEMDISK and get rid of the physical media altogether.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
Dave Thompson
UW-Madison
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