[syslinux] interesting problem...

[Eli Stair]

I once had this problem on Arima HDAMA boards with > 8GB memory... it 
worked fine if you dropped the system down to 2GB.  Obviously it was 
easier to flash a bunch of chips and swap them or just attach a floppy 
to do it.

After the deed was done I got mtdtools working, and it can be done that 
way.  NEVER successfully figured out how to update the NVRAM settings 
for the bios however.

/eli

ishwar ramani wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks a lot for the great tools at syslinux. I have an interesting problem
> for which i am trying to use memdisk. I have a cluster of 40 machines (same
> hardware config) all needing a bios flash. Rather than doing it manually, i
> am trying to use the PXE mode. So i am using memdisk to boot an image of my
> bios flash floppy over the network.
> 
> my platform configuration is supermicro motherboards with award bios.
> 
> So far I have been successful in loading the DOS environment, required for
> my flashing program (awdflash.exe), using memdisk. But once i start running
> the exe, it starts loading the boot image and pauses. Even when i ignore the
> dire warnings of not to reboot the machine and do it, the old bios is
> intact.
> 
> i have heard that some BIOS flashing programs need to run in real mode to
> work. Does memdisk by DEFAULT go into protected mode? Where/how does it
> store the floppy image in memory?
> 
> thanks a lot
> ishwar
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