[arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

[Christian Hesse]

Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57:
> [...]
> If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute 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.
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putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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