[plug] Intel Motherboard allocates incorrect resouces

[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:45:56AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I've also initated conversation with Intel, who helpfully suggest I
> contact my "Linux manufacturer" for support. They suggest that this
> mythical entity can supply me with a BIOS flashing utility that runs
> under Linux - suffice to say that I pointed out that Intel was the
> supplier of the BIOS and the Flashing Utility.

> I've had a *little* luck with running 'dosemu' and BIOS tools, but I
> cannot characterise my venture as a success. Some (DOS) tools told me
> that they didn't run under Windows (I wasn't :-) and others crashed
> dosemu. Some actually came back with some answers, but not enough to be
> actually useful.

FreeDOS is probably what you need. It's effectively what runs under
dosemu, but can be booted off a floppy.
	http://www.freedos.org/
Or you can burn a bootable FeeDOS CD.

I've used just the "install" floppy in the past which gets me enough
stuff to exec a DOS-based BIOS flasher from the usual suspects.

I haven't tried making a USB-Flash-boot disk, but it should be
possible if the BIOS supports it.

> (Idle thought: I wonder if I can net-boot this machine off a remote
> device that updates the BIOS.[There is another Debian box sitting next
> to it with all the mod-cons.])

Hmmm... not sure if you could netboot FreeDOS.
It does do NFS but there are some hiccups if you're only using an
8088 :-)!

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