Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2430 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vahe Avedissian wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As most hw manufacturers force us to boot into dos to upgrade BIOS or run 
> diagnotsics we all need to keep a floppy (or usb) with dos on it.
> I know I can create a small partition and install the floppy contents thee and 
> add the requisite entry to grub (or lilo).
>
> My question is we can boot and jump into memtest using a floppy, or a menu 
> entry in grub using a dot bin file. Can we do the same with dos 6.22
> and not create a new partition for dos?

I'd expect DOS to choke on anything other than a FAT file system.


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