Boot CD

Baltasar · 06-03-2005, 04:03 PM

Hi,

I want to create a bootable CD with a DOS (M$-DOS|FreeDOS|DrDOS|...) as OS so i can flash my bios.
As you can imagine i have no floppy drive or Redmond OS anywhere. I want to create a Boot CD with the Bios Rom on it. How can i realize that?

Thank you in advance!
Baltasar

homey · 06-03-2005, 04:08 PM

The system rescue cd has freedos on it along with lots of other goodies. At the boot prompt, press F2 to see the options.

http://www.sysresccd.org/

scuzzman · 06-03-2005, 05:33 PM

I don't know if this is included in it, but The Ultimate Boot CD has saved my butt a couple of times.

Baltasar · 06-03-2005, 06:13 PM

thank you both for your reply.

i must have a DOS boot cd because i want to run the flash utility which is a .exe (awdflash.lexe)
i did a quick look on it and my thought is that both software isn't what i'm lookin for
any other suggestions?

thank you in advance!
Baltasar

homey · 06-03-2005, 07:12 PM

Bart is famous for that sort of thing... http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
Otherwise, I saw quite a few hits by googling for:
"make cdrom with dos emulation"

mysterio · 06-03-2005, 07:28 PM

Or maybe this might help http://bootdisk.com/

Baltasar · 06-04-2005, 02:34 PM

What i have seen Bart's tools also need a windows os.
how can i modify the content of a iso and make it bootable again?

shaitand · 06-04-2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baltasar
Hi,

I want to create a bootable CD with a DOS (M$-DOS|FreeDOS|DrDOS|...) as OS so i can flash my bios.
As you can imagine i have no floppy drive or Redmond OS anywhere. I want to create a Boot CD with the Bios Rom on it. How can i realize that?

Thank you in advance!
Baltasar

Grab a boot floppy image from the freedos project. You can modify to suit using
mount -o loop floppy.img /mnt/point

Change what you need and then unmount it.

When you are done, create a folder called "boot" and populate with the
contents of your cd and drop the img into it as well.

Then run:

mkisofs -r -b boot/floppy.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso .

mkisofs will create the boot.catalog, your just telling it where to create it.