Re: How to make bootable flash memory USB in Win98?
Wrong again. This board *does* boot to USB flash drive. Thing is, this board
only puts one HD in the list of bootable devices (the others being my floppy
and DVD drives.) then there's another section where you choose the order of
the HDs for purposes of enumeration, the first one being the one that shows
in the boot list. When you have a USB flash drive attached, it gets
enumerated as one an HD. You then have to make it the bootable HD (first in
the list of HDs.)
I had previously used the first HP tool mentioned in the bootdisk.com
article to make the drive a DOS boot disk, added the DOS BIOS flash tool
from Asus (AFU236U.EXE) and the update ROM file, restarted, it booted to the
flash drive, I used AFU236U to backup the old ROM, then install the new one.
Of course, then it was necessary to check settings afterwards.
In short, booting from a flash drive for the purposes of flashing the BIOS
is not only possible, it's rather easy, depending on what has to go onto the
flash drive. (If the OS used is not DOS, then I'm not sure what other tools
are available to set up the flash drive properly. In my case, it also
require a bit of fumbling around in the BIOS to make the flash drive
bootable if it' snot already set up that way.
Since I have a floppy drive, and since Asus actually has BIOS flash
utilities of all sorts, including ones that run from Windows and one that's
built right into the BIOS, using the flash drive is a relatively poor choice
for me, but for systems that have no floppy drive and can boot to a flash
drive, I see no problems
--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com
"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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>I was wrong. My fancy, one-year-old Asus P5B Deluxe does not support
>booting to a USB stick.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://grystmill.com
>
> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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>> My primary intention was to show Tony the potential difficulties even
>> booting to a flash drive. I don't think his machines qualify. But if you
>> can boot to a flash drive using whatever OS the BIOS flash requires, then
>> I don't see why you can't flash the BIOS using one. What's the difference
>> how the OS and BIOS ROM & Utility get loaded into memory before going to
>> work?
>>
>> Anyway, since I believe my machine qualifies under the list of
>> requirements mentioned on the page, I'll see if it can be done.
>>
>> --
>> Gary S. Terhune
>> MS-MVP Shell/User
>> http://grystmill.com
>>
>> "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddressBuddy.com> wrote in message
>> news:eAFz5rg5IHA.2060@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> Is the procedure you pointed out going to allow him to flash a BIOS? If
>>> so, I stand corrected on the info in my post to Tony.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Ron Badour
>>> MS MVP
>>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>>
>>>
>>> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
>>> news:e8lDaWg5IHA.2240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>I would consider this page a good source on the topic.
>>>> http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gary S. Terhune
>>>> MS-MVP Shell/User
>>>> http://grystmill.com
>>>>
>>>> "Tony Phan" <TonyPhan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ABADE4E4-27C8-46EE-911B-805348ABD66A@microsoft.com...
>>>>> Hi, now we are still using the Windows 98 bootable to flash BIOS
>>>>> system. It
>>>>> is very usefully to boot by USB flash memory but I don't know how,
>>>>> please
>>>>> help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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