-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-04-21 at 07:57 -0700, Vahe Avedissian wrote:

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?

You can emulate dos inside linux. You can run a dos virtual box using vmware or virtual box or whatever. But no, you can not boot a file and have dos. And the first two options are useless to update the bios (a virtualized system accesses a virtual bios, not the real bios); and the emulated dos will be refused access to the bios by the linux kernel. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDLDotTMYHG2NR9URAkorAJ9as2pD2eInBkuTE/jvQE257FRrxQCfeL5k 6cIyJcuZdmDrgwZ7mmNiEjk= =iTGy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2008/4/21, Vahe Avedissian :

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?

Thanks,

Vahe

Yes, you can. I use the biosdisk Dell utility to update my Inspiron laptop, it should work with any hardware... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org