The hard drive I stick in when I want some operating systems on one has XP Pro and OpenBSD 5.2. OpenBSD 5.2 doesn't have libpci even in ports so that rules out flashrom unless I want to try to build libpci from sources (or a distfile).
I tried in XP safe mode running HP's sp40750.exe (which is a SoftPaq like Compaq uses) and got: Can not open driver Flash1.sys. The driver is not existed or the OS is not in administrator privilege. Flash1.sys is contained in sp40750.exe so it must be safe mode that's killing me. This is a Phoenix BIOS, not Award, hence the winphlash. I think I'm going to try the Vista drivers on HP's page, they might work with XP and let me boot not into Safe Mode. On 6/6/16, li...@wrant.com <li...@wrant.com> wrote: > Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:36:46 +0300 li...@wrant.com >> 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. > > I meant flashrom, not flashboot (different topic). Back in the days there > were also uniflash (abandoned) and some other (universal) flash utilities. > > From quick searches online HP seem to have some support resources, which is > your best bet, including the live (preboot environment) for WinXP > (offlist). > > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
