Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:52:33PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> It would not be a partition, but rather an image file.  On the System
> Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org ; please try it) there is a program
> called 'memdisk' that is booted by 'isolinux', and it in turn loads the
> freedos image:
> 
> label freedos
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=/bootdisk/freedos.img floppy
> 
> I have succeeded in booting FreeDOS via Grub by copying the
> 'bootdisks/freedos.img'  and 'isolinux/memdisk' files from the System
> Rescue CD (v 0.2.15) into /boot, and then adding:
> 
> title  FreeDOS
> root   (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/memdisk floppy
> initrd /boot/freedos.img
> boot
> 
> ... to the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst.  It seems possible.

Sounds great; I'd like to see such a package in Ubuntu.  I don't think that
it would be appropriate to install it by default, but for users who need
this functionality, it would be very convenient to be able to install it.

-- 
 - mdz