I was having trouble getting my dvd burner to burn at maximum speed (8x) so I decided to take a chance and flash my firmware. I didn’t destroy my drive, but the upgraded firmware didn’t change anything so it’s kind of a letdown. I’m posting my method here for future reference.<\/p>\n
Usually bios flashing is done from a floppy, but I have a modern laptop so I have no floppy. Flashing can also be done from a cdrom, but it’s a very bad idea to flash your CD drive from the CD drive!<\/b><\/p>\n
My solution involved creating a small, ten megabyte vfat partition on my hard drive. If you don’t like the sound of that, stop reading. This is not a howto, just a set of notes. If you blow up your computer with these instructions, it’s not my fault.<\/p>\n
1. burn a freedos<\/a> cd as-is. I think that’s everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was having trouble getting my dvd burner to burn at maximum speed (8x) so I decided to take a chance and flash my firmware. I didn’t destroy my drive, but the upgraded firmware didn’t change anything so it’s kind of a letdown. I’m posting my method here for future reference. Usually bios flashing is … Continue reading “flashing firmware without windows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. \/sbin\/swapoff \/dev\/hdaX to turn off my swap (oh yeah baby)
\n3. using \/sbin\/fdisk, delete my swap partition
\n4. recreate my swap partition, but leave off two of the blocks or so (about 10-16 megs)
\n5. create a partition of type 0xb (windows 95 32bit)
\n6. reboot<\/b> to init new partition
\n7. \/sbin\/mkswap \/dev\/hdaX’ to reinit my new, slightly smaller swap
\n8. \/sbin\/swapon \/dev\/hdaX’
\n9. \/sbin\/mkfs.vfat \/dev\/hdaY to create new vfat partition
\n10. mount the vfat partition, copy the freedos command.com there (just in case) and all of the flashing utils \/ images
\n11. reboot with freedos cd
\n12. boot option 1, and then “safe mode”
\n13. change to c: (voila, now we are on the HD!)
\n14. run c:\\command.com just in case (now we aren’t using the cdrom)
\n15. do flashing shit<\/a>
\n16. reboot and pray you still have a cdrom <\/p>\n