Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:57:05PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> Great response so far... any input on the implementation decisions I
> mention?

I don't much like the idea of creating a partition for this by default.
It's a lot of complexity in the default installation, just to make a very
rare use case more convenient.

Most of the firmware updates that I have seen ship as a floppy image
(usually with a simple Windows wrapper to dump it onto a floppy), containing
MS-DOS, the update tool, and the firmware itself.  Where I have a floppy
drive available, I use that.  If I found myself in need of such an update on
a machine without a floppy drive, I would seek out a USB floppy drive (they
can be had for ~20 USD).

I don't think that installing FreeDOS on the hard drive makes this operation
particularly more convenient: it's still deep guru magic, and folks who want
to do it that way are capable of setting up such a configuration themselves.

-- 
 - mdz