[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Jay Loden]

Are you trying to upgrade, or just reinstall? Maybe you could install Windows 
on another hard drive,or over FreeBSD's / partition if you're going to 
reinstall FreeBSD 5.3 anyway.  I know that's a pain in the neck, but is it 
any worse than what you're going through trying to get an emulator installed 
to run the BIOS flash?

There's also a Windows Live CD out there, and at least one site with 
instructions on how to make a Windows live CD that you can run apps off of.  
If you're really against getting Windows installed, you could probably create 
one of those to run the app from. 

-Jay

On Friday 04 March 2005 08:53 am, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thanks again, Mike  :-)
>
> I've not given up on restoring the NT box, rather waiting on the new
> video card that'll handle the framebuffer requirement of QtPartEd.
> Thanks again for offering to loan yours but I decided if this works,
> this capability is worth owning. Besides the card was <$5 on Ebay :-)
>
> Thank you for pointing to FreeDOS but my ROM burner programs from the
> motherboard vendor runs under Windows and won't DOS. I tried  :-(
>
> How about VMware ? Will it allow flashing of the hardware BIOS or does
> it have a resident software BIOS ?
>
> BTW, all this is going on under FreeBSD-4.3, in Linux compatibility
> mode, which I'm trying to upgrade to FreeBSD-5.3.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Courtney
>
> Michael Trausch wrote:
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> > Courtney Thomas wrote:
> >>Trey,
> >>
> >>I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to
> >>upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large
> >>HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I
> >>need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need
> >>to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)
> >
> > Courtney,
> >
> > You will want to use FreeDOS, outside of an emulator, to flash your
> > BIOS.  See the FreeDOS project at http://www.freedos.org/ - create a
> > boot floppy - or use the Boot CD-ROM - and put your BIOS flashing
> > stuff on a floppy and run it from there.  Make sure you boot clean -
> > e.g., with ZERO drivers.  And note, your floppy drive if you boot
> > from the CD-ROM will be drive B:.
> >
> > If you do not trust FreeDOS, you can use one of the images at
> > http://www.bootdisk.com/ - although, I'm not sure of the legality.
> > I have used FreeDOS successfully to flash BIOS a few times before,
> > and I have (yet) to see it fail.  (*Knocks on Wood*)
> >
> > 	Later,
> > 	Mike
> >
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