Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 04:20:24PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:56 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Ok.  I'm willing to spend some time to develop it.  How do you think it
> should be done?
> 
> I think that I should start with the 'syslinux' source, and add a new
> package to that, splitting out the 'memdisk' program into it's own
> package.  Then, a package with a FreeDOS image needs to be put together.

I think that the syslinux package is suitable for this purpose without
modifications; it would be reasonable for the FreeDOS image package to
depend on syslinux to provide the loader.

Regarding GRUB configuration, it can be done in the same way as memtest86+
currently works.

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 - mdz