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.\u00a0 I used a bootable Windows 98 Floppy (wow remember those) as an image for the CD to boot to.\u00a0 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:).<\/p>\n
The flaw in this plan was Dell’s DRAC system did not like this boot mechanism.\u00a0 I ended up putting a physical disk into the Dell and updating the firmware that way.<\/p>\n
But then I hit flaw two, our newer systems had SATA DVD’s which did not work with the drivers I had.<\/p>\n
I had enough of the BS and decided to do a full hard drive emulation.<\/p>\n
I started up a virtual machine in VMware Workstation with a DOS boot.\u00a0 I put everything I needed on to this.\u00a0 I then mounted the Virtual disk of that DOS VM on to a Linux VM and did a dd of the IDE hard drive.\u00a0 I then used the following command to create the iso where boot.img is the dd of the DOS Hard drive<\/p>\n
mkisofs -b boot\/boot.img -c boot\/boot.catalog -hard-disk-boot -o ..\/boot-cd.iso .<\/pre>\nSlowing down but it doesn’t mean I am stopping my workouts.\u00a0 I did a my 1000 calorie workout all on the treadmill.\u00a0 Towards the end I lost momentum, but I got through it.
\nWeight: 248.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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.\u00a0 I used a bootable Windows 98 Floppy (wow remember those) as an image for the … Continue reading