Bootable Cd help please

[Johnbear007]

I made a bootable Cd with nero, in order to use to flash my bios, It boots just fine, but the flash utility and bios are not on the disk in dos however they do show up in windows.. whats going on?

 

[MDE]

You need a DOS CD-ROM driver, Google it or look on www.bootdisks.com or something similar to that.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
You need a DOS CD-ROM driver, Google it or look on www.bootdisks.com or something similar to that.

I thkn you misunderstood

The CD BOOTS it is readable, it is there. however in windows it shows the flash utility and bios, but in dos it shows only the boot files

 

[DaveSimmons]

No, MonkeyDriveExpress is correct -- on the "floppy part" of the CD you need to have DOS CD files (a .SYS and MSCDEX) plus lines in the AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files to load the DOS CD drivers.

The fact that a CD is bootable just means that it has the equivalent of a diskette added to it. The motherboard BIOS reads the diskette part to load DOS, but DOS itself can't read the non-diskette part without DOS CD drivers.

So follow MonkeyDriveExpress's advice, got to bootdisk.com and download a diskette image that includes CD drivers.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
No, MonkeyDriveExpress is correct -- on the "floppy part" of the CD you need to have DOS CD files (a .SYS and MSCDEX) plus lines in the AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files to load the DOS CD drivers.

The fact that a CD is bootable just means that it has the equivalent of a diskette added to it. The motherboard BIOS reads the diskette part to load DOS, but DOS itself can't read the non-diskette part without DOS CD drivers.

So follow MonkeyDriveExpress's advice, got to bootdisk.com and download a diskette image that includes CD drivers.

but if burn an image from that place, how will i be able to add the files I need? Ill give it a try

thanks guys

 

[Need4Speed]

how did u make the bootable cd? using floppy emulation? if so, then your files are on the a:\ and your real floppy is now the b:\ drive. all u need to do, is boot from the cd and change to a:

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
how did u make the bootable cd? using floppy emulation? if so, then your files are on the a:\ and your real floppy is now the b:\ drive. all u need to do, is boot from the cd and change to a:

thats what I did. but they are not there. I then just put the files I needed on a floppy , and tried to flah my bios but I then got a dos4gw error

 

[Need4Speed]

first, i had that backwards...been a long day the floppy emulation does swap your physcial floppy to b:, and then usees the a: to boot. your files should then be on whatever drive letter the boot floppy image assigned to it. where did you get the floppy boot image? did u make it yourself? in that case, as stated above you need to make sure there are cdrom drivers included in the boot image in order to access the files.

did you get an error when you accessed the files or were they just not there?

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
first, i had that backwards...been a long day the floppy emulation does swap your physcial floppy to b:, and then usees the a: to boot. your files should then be on whatever drive letter the boot floppy image assigned to it. where did you get the floppy boot image? did u make it yourself? in that case, as stated above you need to make sure there are cdrom drivers included in the boot image in order to access the files.

did you get an error when you accessed the files or were they just not there?

Actually, I started another thread on this so ill kind of combine them, since the issues go together

im try to flash my bios

Things I have tried:

Made a bootable CD with nero. The A: drive (which it emulates) shows files on it, however NOT the files I put there, just some system files or something

Second I went to bootdisk.com and just made a dos 6 floppy boot, as well as 98
Put image and flash utility on another disk

booted (tried both disks)

I get the error:

DOS /4G error 2001 exception 0Dh general protection fault..... it goes on but its like a whole page, and I couldnt remember how to print to a file from DOS

so any ideas whats going on? I just recently cleared my CMOS with a jumper AND removign the battery so that should have taken care of a corrupted bios, but I could try that again, if thats all that I have left to try

thanks

 

[Need4Speed]

the a drive is the floppy emulation...you need to change drives to the drive letter assigned during bootup to the cdrom. your files should be there. where did u get the floppy boot image?

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
the a drive is the floppy emulation...you need to change drives to the drive letter assigned during bootup to the cdrom. your files should be there. where did u get the floppy boot image?

REgardless the bootable cdrom is a non- issue at this point, I just want to flash my bios. I didnt get a floppy boot image, I just used neros bootable cd option. but I dont really need a bootable CD I just need help figuring out why my bios wont flash

 

[Johnbear007]

Here is the Exact error I am getting:



636416 bytes free

A:\>prn2file A:\error.txt
PRN2FILE 1.0 (c) 1987 Ziff Communications Co.
LPT1 Redirected to: A:\error.txt

A:\>aminf335 chb1129f.rom
DOS/4G Protected Mode Run-time Version 2.01a
Copyright (c) Tenberry Software, Inc. 1996
DOS/4G error (2001): exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 1A0:0018004C
TSF32: prev_tsf32 81D0
SS 1A8 DS 1A8 ES 1A8 FS 0 GS 20
EAX CA1956B9 EBX 197052 ECX E3BA0002 EDX 19FF00
ESI 197058 EDI 19806C EBP 0 ESP 19E9F6
CS:IP 1A0:0018004C ID 0D COD 1950 FLG 10002
CS= 1A0, USE32, page granular, limit FFFFFFFF, base 0, acc CF9B
SS= 1A8, USE32, page granular, limit FFFFFFFF, base 0, acc CF93
DS= 1A8, USE32, page granular, limit FFFFFFFF, base 0, acc CF93
ES= 1A8, USE32, page granular, limit FFFFFFFF, base 0, acc CF93
FS= 0, USE16, byte granular, limit 0, base 16, acc 0
GS= 20, USE16, byte granular, limit FFFF, base 211F0, acc 93
CR0: PG:0 ET:1 TS:0 EM:0 MP:0 PE:1 CR2: 0 CR3: 0
Crash address (unrelocated) = 2:0000004C

A:\>

 

[clarkmo]

Page fault in dos?
Maybe the memory is bad?
Swap dimms?

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: clarkmo
Page fault in dos?
Maybe the memory is bad?
Swap dimms?

Nope, it turned out to be the stupid ami flash utility. I needed to use an older version of it. Now it works fine and im beginning to OC my 1700+