I omitted to say that my operating system is Linux, Slackware 14.2. The
Windows solutions of Rufus or a dos formatted usb stick don't work for
me since these require some form of Windows. Unetbootin also does not
work with FreeDOS I.2, but even with a 1.0 image, the usb stick goes
into the setup routine.
I am now looking at:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux
and
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/BIOS_Update#FreeDOS_environment
I do not want to brick the motherboard or reformat the hard drive, and
since I rarely upgrade bios I am not familiar with the process. I do
have a Windows virtualbox guest on the computer, but the usb stick is
not accessible from that. I think there is some process for doing that,
but I haven't looked into it.
I have created several bootable usb sticks with syslinux and FreeDOS,
but they enter the FreeDOS Setup menu when they are booted. I believe I
want just the COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS, and a few other files to have the DOS
functionality that will be needed for the bios update .EXE file. I
imagine the .EXE has the bios rom image included, so some compression
software is probably needed.
The MSI bios upgrade process is in the initial boot, where you are
supposed to press DEL to enter bios setup and then select something like
M-FLASH or FLASH BIOS which then asks you to select a file from the USB
stick. At this point the upgrade process stops with a message like
unusable file or missing files or something which I don't remember exactly.
Thanks
On 04/06/2018 08:58 AM, Kevin McCormick wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I subscribed to this list because I am having a lot of trouble making
> a simple dos usb stick to upgrade my computer bios. It is appalling
> that the my motherboard manufacturer does not have the tools for linux
> (or windows for that matter) and the AMI bios is equally appalling.
> However, I really don't want to buy another motherboard.
>
> I have no trouble installing freedos into a qemu virtual disk, or
> making a bootable usb stick, but I don't know how to get around the
> freedos setup routine and just have the functionality of a dos boot
> floppy. Basically, I think I want to copy the necessary "base" files
> onto the usb stick and have the needed /sys files. I believe that is
> enough for the bios flash to work.
>
> The motherboard is MSI 7677 E61 (B3) mini-tx intel socket 1155.
>
> Thanks
>
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