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Creating a BIOS flashing Boot CD in FreeBSD

Written by James T. Nixon III. Posted in FreeBSD, iXsystems, PC-BSD

This post may be considered trivial to most of you, but I thought I’d post it up here for the sake of documentation.

The production manager approached me this morning and asked if I could make a bootable ISO for a customer who needed to flash the BIOS of several servers.  I suggested they PXE boot, but because of the volume of servers they have with PXE booting disabled, human involvement would be unavoidable.

I have several bootable floppies for flashing BIOSes, but our customer had specific configuration requests, so I had to switch out the zipped ROM file located within the floppy image.  Simple enough, right?

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    August 12, 2010 |

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  • James T. Nixon III

    July 29, 2010 |

    Lol, I know right!?

  • Matt Olander

    July 29, 2010 |

    Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT ;)

  • alan

    October 28, 2009 |

    One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition

  • Shaul

    September 4, 2009 |

    I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.