{"id":251,"date":"2012-10-02T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-10-12T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:46:06","slug":"dos-boot-disks-under-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/dos-boot-disks-under-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Dos Boot Disks Under Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have no choice and you need to boot into a DOS boot disk &#8212; to upgrade your BIOS for example, or to run Seagate's SeaTools, as I had to recently. This can be a headache when you're using Linux.<\/p>\n<p>I was having issues with the SeaTools' own boot disk, as I wanted to run it off a USB stick rather than a CD. Apparently it didn't want to boot after I'd put it on there. So this is how to get around it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partition your USB stick to make a FAT 16 partition. You could use gparted to do this or the Ubuntu Disk tool for example.<\/li>\n<li>Use unetbootin to install FreeDOS onto the stick: Select FreeDOS as the distribution and your USB stick in the lower window. This will download the FreeDOS image, and install it. Its pretty small so this doesn't take long.<\/li>\n<li>When its finished, copy the .exe files you need to run to the root of the USB stick. SeaTools.exe or BIOS1234.exe or whatever.<\/li>\n<li>Reboot and boot onto the USB stick.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use cd B: or cd C: to change directory<\/strong>. You should now be able to see your .exe files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last point held me up for quite a while &#8230; I couldn't figure out why I couldn't see the files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you have no choice and you need to boot into a DOS boot disk &#8212; to upgrade your BIOS for example, or to run Seagate's SeaTools, as I had to recently. This can be a headache when you're using Linux. I was having issues with the SeaTools' own boot disk, as I wanted to &#8230; <a title=\"Dos Boot Disks Under Linux\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/dos-boot-disks-under-linux\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dos Boot Disks Under Linux\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}