[aklug] Re: Flashing my linux box

From: <jonr@destar.net>
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 08:13:28 AKDT

Quoting Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>:

> barsalou said, on 09/18/2010 11:25 PM:
>>
>> I ran across a need to update my bios recently, however, the machine =20
>> I'm using doesn't have an externally bootable device (except for the =20
>> ethernet port).
>>
>> Because of this I had to find a way to boot from the grub2 boot =20
>> loader. There is a ton of stuff out there about this, but none of it =20
>> worked as advertised.
>>
>> This is the short version of how you might be able to do this for =20
>> yourself on a machine that is using grub2:
>
> Great writeup, Mike - thanks for taking the time. I've been relying on
> DOS-bootable USB for this, but this expands my options.
>
> Royce

Same, but now, as the song says, "I got the power".

Thanks Mike

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