[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

Gary Mills gary_mills at fastmail.fm
Sun Aug 19 13:06:07 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:55:01PM -0400, Rich wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Has anybody figured out how to do this?  I need to update the BIOS on
> > a system with a Tyan motherboard.  Tyan support sent me an EXE file
> > and a BAT file along with the BIOS image as a ROM file.
> 
> It's fairly straightforward. You want what, a bootable (Free)DOS USB key?
> 
> You should be able to mostly follow
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive, but with different
> paths to your GRUB data files, presuming they're installed [I haven't
> checked, I'm not near any of my OI systems]...

So nobody's done this on OI.  I reluctantly used the Windows method.
It was simple and seemed to work.

-- 
-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-



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