BIOS upgrading
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Oct 28 08:29:30 UTC 2007
Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 10/27/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> If you have partition 1 as your /boot partition, and you have
>> wbiosboot.img as your image file, you can have an entry like this:
>>
>> title BIOS update
>> root (hd0,0)
>> chainloader /wbiosboot.img
>
> I didn't know that grub chainloader was capable of doing this. You
> mention doing this with a floppy image, is it possible to boot into
> bootable ISO images this way?
>
> /Mike
>
I think it's an option RH/F doesn't build (grub has a few features not
normally included), but properly constructed, grub can read from CD:
root (cd)
and even the LAN*
root (nb)
* Requires a driver for your NIC, and drivers take RAM and so it's not
normally built that way.
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