Facilitation of BIOS flash upgrades. [update-grub]

[Paul Sladen]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

Hello Karl,

> label freedos
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=/bootdisk/freedos.img floppy

I think this is what I concluded in a previous message---but I like your
idea of just distributing 1.44MB disk-images themselves, rather than
worrying about having to create those images ''on-the-fly''.

This really simplifies the solution into a ''make a package to automatically
add a memdisk entry'', rather than ''something to do with FreeDOS''.

For example:

  label ThinkPad R31 BIOS Updater (ver. 1UET1234 2005-01-17)
     kernel memdisk
     append initrd=/usr/share/bios-updates/2005-01-17-tp-1UET1234.img floppy

And just depend on 'memdisk' and/or 'isolinux'.

  Q: Is there a 'clean' way to add/remove an entry from menu.lst--eg,
  something runlevels style and can be #included in by update-grub?

How those disk-images are updated/created/maintained can then be something
entirely different.

	-Paul
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