On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:05:12AM +0300, Beeblebrox wrote: > Len & Vladimir: > > I just sent a repeat of the first message by mistake - please disregard. > > >> You are trying to make it way too complicated. DOS doesn't like > complicated. > > I'm fine with that. I just went about it in that manner because I was not > very sure how to get this done and more or less fumbling around. > > >> I think the most practical thing to do would be to make a bootable USB > key and use that along with the USBASPI.SYS driver to get access to the > rest of the USB key after booting DOS. > > You of course mean by this that I would have to have a dedicated USB drive > just for this task - is that correct? I really don't want to have a USB > dedicated and limited to upgrading of BIOS. > > >>* You can always modify FreeDOS to* >* suit your needs > > * > *Just to confirm: What I am trying to get done is possible then? Not that I > want to make things complicated, I just want to be able to use a > grub2-bootlader USB to multi-boot various tools (including BIOS flash > utility from dos). > * > *Sadly, flashrom does not work on my hardware as yet.
Does this give you any ideas: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1545929 It uses a ramdisk as far as I can tell, rather than USB, but you can find USB drivers for DOS that you could add to give you access to a USB key. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
