Re: [opensuse] can I add dos 6.22 to grub without using a separate partition

Vahe Avedissian wrote:

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From: Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [opensuse] can I add dos 6.22 to grub without using a separate partition

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The Monday 2008-04-21 at 07:57 -0700, Vahe Avedissian wrote:

As most hw manufacturers force us to boot into dos to upgrade BIOS or run diagnotsics we all need to keep a floppy (or usb) with dos on it. I know I can create a small partition and install the floppy contents thee and add the requisite entry to grub (or lilo).

My question is we can boot and jump into memtest using a floppy, or a menu entry in grub using a dot bin file. Can we do the same with dos 6.22 and not create a new partition for dos?

Hi, I just flashed my bios with flashrom, from the coreboot-utils package. See http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom for installation details and supported chipsets and mother boards.
Regards
Dave P
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