From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SJoRF-0002hT-43 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:06:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BB78E0AF3; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com (mail-wg0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4108E095F for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so7976117wgb.4 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:04:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=oznIBkULpylL2841S/1k++weh9axK53uXc4k9spWxW4=; b=yJiBU+A/Er4aAoLOQVfN98PftOUnjJHwvnPRJrpcG2t+Wz72pie7529ZCVowhqXSuq y/xCZsHrQy1SKHhpokkxPlti9A9uHhVXfzSpsbFdNXur+1MarqZI1l2TDvMR5FR79B1K 1E5LhXXHeLEIWHrVQAsdrMG8e++519Nd7qc2wGHuIsoWRqM1GDvLfuXiCjyFiJYJEbWN dhCSUW+tqNWtE9HR5xsqhP7wJbTXx4eLFPIugQOJQqJyA9eQteglYdEpz61nf/jSr23g Szf/fW9eOgbIvyoTXpu+zsCI0GREWFAgTBQCVICoL6jUjVMaWf8089JnEdAjg8IhwyRn UvqA== Received: by 10.216.132.202 with SMTP id o52mr7204340wei.106.1334592243933; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC613F4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.19.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gd4sm32974182wib.6.2012.04.16.09.04.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:04:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update BIOS with 4MB .exe Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:03:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1919372.GxIWIk599F@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.2 (Linux/3.0.27; KDE/4.8.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: fdc4666f-ea75-4fc1-bfd2-4a58369a13d8 X-Archives-Hash: 0309c6efab11ad67c54c04c2c5e6b252 Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant: > I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to > update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The > root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too > large for the available 1.44MB DOS boot disks. Apparently FreeDOS had > a LiveCD available at some point but it has reportedly been > unavailable for quite some time. > > The following method looks promising but it also doesn't work. DOS > can't seem to execute the .exe file which sits outside of the boot > image: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive > > Does anyone know how to do this? > > - Grant download systemrescuecd install it on a usb stick systemrescuecd has freedos 'on board', boot into freedos, flash. -- #163933