So I had a problem at work today, I needed to update the firmware on some HBA but the boot CD I had was faulty. I used a bootable Windows 98 Floppy (wow remember those) as an image for the CD to boot to. So when the CD booted up, there appeared an “A:” drive which then had CD rom drivers to produce content on the CD (which was C:).
The flaw in this plan was Dell’s DRAC system did not like this boot mechanism. I ended up putting a physical disk into the Dell and updating the firmware that way.
But then I hit flaw two, our newer systems had SATA DVD’s which did not work with the drivers I had.
I had enough of the BS and decided to do a full hard drive emulation.
I started up a virtual machine in VMware Workstation with a DOS boot. I put everything I needed on to this. I then mounted the Virtual disk of that DOS VM on to a Linux VM and did a dd of the IDE hard drive. I then used the following command to create the iso where boot.img is the dd of the DOS Hard drive
mkisofs -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -hard-disk-boot -o ../boot-cd.iso .
Slowing down but it doesn’t mean I am stopping my workouts. I did a my 1000 calorie workout all on the treadmill. Towards the end I lost momentum, but I got through it.
Weight: 248.0