DOS Boot Disks
One of the more interesting problems I ran into with the MythTV (that I was able to actually overcome) was flashing the BIOS. To flash the BIOS you need to boot into a “driver free” zone, typically DOS-compatible. So that means you can’t boot Linux or Windows, just pure DOS. Add in that many systems don’t even have 3.5″ floppies anymore and it gets interesting. How do you get to a pure DOS prompt anymore?
I dug for over an hour all around the net before finding the guys at www.bootdisk.com and the “FlashCD” system. The FlashCD install is less than a meg and boots (from a CD) to an old version of Dr DOS with CD Drivers. The instructions say to “Edit the ISO File” and add your flashing utilities and roms, but I found it much easier to simply burn a multisession CD (First session with FlashCD, second session with my tools). I wound up using less than a meg on the CD, but it booted in just a few seconds and worked perfectly. I was able to Flash the BIOS of my BP6 with no issues.
Why can’t more things be this simple?
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