Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:09:46 -0400 Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> > > Upgrading sqlports-compact keeps your pkg_mgr aware of current ports. > > > >> So, I guess I should look at BiosDisk too. > > > > If one utility warns you could potentially have unpredictable flashing > > results, how is the other utility that does not warn you so different? > > > > Tech support may not be engineering support, which you could then need. > > Simply just use the manufacturer tools and not blame third party tools. > > Because of the dozens of different machines on which this runs I'm not > sure that mine is one that has the problem. I'd like to actually see > the warning before I decide not to use it. Biosdisk is about 6 years > old so I decided to not go that route. Of course the machine is about > 10 years old and so is the BIOS image. > > The manufacturer tools rely on Windows Vista which I don't have or > want. If they had a more typical floppy image file I'd use it. I > suspect it might run under XP but I don't have a way to put XP on the > machine, since it's booting from CD/DVD I'm trying to fix. Although I > do have a hard drive with XP on it from another machine which blue > screens on this one, maybe I can bring it up in safe mode or > something. Especially if it doesn't need GUI.
I think you're quite competent to continue but have in mind the gotchas. >From past experience I recall the command prompt stopped being truly DOS compatible around win98, yet XP could be used to create a DOS compatible boot disk, that would also be able to run award flashing tools. The HP proprietary stuff however may be another very different piece of... you know what, so the risks that flashboot warns about may actually be Real.
