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Help with updating bios

I need to update a setting in the BIOS on our SCO Openserver 5.0.7 system and all I can bring up about it says I need to create a dos bootable disk of some sort. The problem is that it doesn't seem like dos is loading up fully. I created the dos bootable thumb drive on a Windows PC using Rufus and copied over the necessary files afterwards. When I boot to the thumb drive on the same PC, everything looks fine. I have a command prompt and everything. But when I try to boot to the same thumb drive on the SCO system, all I end up with is a screen that says 'Loading FreeDos _' and it just hangs there. The cursor doesn't flash (I don't think) and I cannot type anything.

Is there something silly that I'm doing wrong here? I didn't know if there would be some way to actually create the dos bootable disk on the SCO system itself. The reason for needing to update the BIOS is that we do not seem to have network connectivity. I've noticed in the boot sequence after bcme0/bcme1 a note about 'Get adapter info failed' and 'This driver does not support ASF' The broadcom documentation that I referred to echoed that, saying that ASF needs to be disabled. Thanks very much for any help!

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grub2-bios-setup

GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)					     Library Functions Manual						GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)

NAME

       grub-bios-setup -- Set up images to boot from a device.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-bios-setup [-a | --allow-floppy] [-b | --boot-image=FILE]
			[-c | --core-image=FILE] [-d | --directory=DIR]
			[-f | --force] [-m | --device-map=FILE]
			[-s | --skip-fs-probe] [-v | --verbose] DEVICE

DESCRIPTION

       You should not normally run this program directly.  Use grub-install instead.

OPTIONS

       --allow-floppy
	      Make  the device also bootable as a floppy.  This option is the default for /dev/fdX devices.  Some BIOSes will not boot images cre-
	      ated with this option.

       --boot-image=FILE
	      Use FILE as the boot image.  The default value is boot.img.

       --core-image=FILE
	      Use FILE as ther core image.  The default value is core.img.

       --directory=DIR
	      Use GRUB files in the directory DIR.  The default value is /boot/grub.

       --force
	      Install even if problems are detected.

       --device-map=FILE
	      Use FILE as the device map.  The default value is /boot/grub/device.map .

       --skip-fs-probe
	      Do not probe DEVICE for filesystems.

       --verbose
	      Print verbose messages.

SEE ALSO

       info grub

								  Wed Feb 26 2014						GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)

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