[plug] Intel Motherboard allocates incorrect resouces

[Onno Benschop]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:10, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:45:56AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
> > 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.

Bzzzt. One elephant stamp...

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

Can't remember if there are accessible USB ports, or if it boots of USB
floppy, but you're redeemed :-)

> > (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 :-)!

:-)

Onno Benschop 

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