Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> on Wed, 2013/01/16 10:18:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de> wrote:
[...] If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute
Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57: this,
I would really appreciate it.
I do have the same drive and I updated the firmware booting the image off grub. All just need is a working grub (2.0 here) installation and syslinux (for memdisk). (Though doing it with syslinux should work as well.)
The grub.cfg should have a config section that looks like this:
menuentry "Update Crucial M4" { set root='(hd0,1)' linux16 /memdisk floppy initrd16 /boot2880.img }
If the files are in place (probably in /boot/) the image should boot and you can successfully update the drives firmware.
Mounting the boot image, modifying it or installing freedos is not necessary.
Thanks Christian - it sounds like you are running grub off the system already installed to the internal drive? If that is the case then maybe I will have to install arch to the internal drive first and then add in the grub entries to execute the firmware update and boot to them?
However it would be nice to be able to run grub (2) off a usbkey and execute the firmware update before installing arch to the internal drives which then already have the updated ssd firmware.
Does not matter where grub is installed to. It just has to find and boot the files. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}