[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Courtney Thomas]

Thanks again, Mike  :-)

I've not given up on restoring the NT box, rather waiting on the new 
video card that'll handle the framebuffer requirement of QtPartEd.
Thanks again for offering to loan yours but I decided if this works, 
this capability is worth owning. Besides the card was <$5 on Ebay :-)

Thank you for pointing to FreeDOS but my ROM burner programs from the 
motherboard vendor runs under Windows and won't DOS. I tried  :-(

How about VMware ? Will it allow flashing of the hardware BIOS or does 
it have a resident software BIOS ?

BTW, all this is going on under FreeBSD-4.3, in Linux compatibility 
mode, which I'm trying to upgrade to FreeBSD-5.3.

Cordially,

Courtney



Michael Trausch wrote:

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> Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>Trey,
>>
>>I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to
>>upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large
>>HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I
>>need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need
>>to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)
>>
>>
> 
> Courtney,
> 
> You will want to use FreeDOS, outside of an emulator, to flash your
> BIOS.  See the FreeDOS project at http://www.freedos.org/ - create a
> boot floppy - or use the Boot CD-ROM - and put your BIOS flashing
> stuff on a floppy and run it from there.  Make sure you boot clean -
> e.g., with ZERO drivers.  And note, your floppy drive if you boot
> from the CD-ROM will be drive B:.
> 
> If you do not trust FreeDOS, you can use one of the images at
> http://www.bootdisk.com/ - although, I'm not sure of the legality.
> I have used FreeDOS successfully to flash BIOS a few times before,
> and I have (yet) to see it fail.  (*Knocks on Wood*)
> 
> 	Later,
> 	Mike
> 
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