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  • Hardware/hNodes/cNodeVer3/dAssembly/cBios/USBBoot

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     1=== 9/20/2011 ===
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     3How to build the USB boot stick:
     4
     5You will need:
     6 1. Bios Image (Board Specfic)
     7 1. Bios Write Tool (Board Sepcfic)
     8 1. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (Running on a Windows box, Win7 in my example)
     9 1. DOS compatible boot files (Free DOS in this case, Unpacked from the FDOEM.144 Image)
     10
     11'''NOTE:''' The tools and bios files for the LV-67X line are located on the archive(Windows share: \\archive2\pub\Archive\PC\Bios)
     12
     13To Create the USB Flash Disk:
     14 1. Install the HP utility
     15 1. Insert USB flash DISK
     16 1. Start Utility as Admin
     17 1. In the Utility Set:
     18  1. Device to you Flash Disk
     19  1. File System to FAT
     20  1. Volume label to some Meaningful name
     21  1. Check Quick Format
     22  1. Check Create A DOS startup disk
     23  1. Specfiy the directory for the DOS files and point it to the location of the Free DOS boot files
     24 1. Hit Start
     25 1. Once the utility completes (should be quick), Broswe to the newly formatted disk and drag your Bios specific Files onto that disk.
     26
     27This disk should now be capable of Flashing your bios.
     28
     29In the LV-67B bios (and I suspect others in the LV line), the flash disk can be put into 1 of 3 modes USB-FDD, USB-HDD, AUTO. The Auto mode guesses either FDD or HDD. When in the FDD mode the bios treats the flash disk like a floppy. This mode ''' DOES NOT ''' work with the tools for building a USB flash Drive. The HDD mode does work. To use this mode however, you need to specify Hard disk as the booting device and the modify the Hard drive boot order to put your USB Flash disk first.
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     31----
     32=== Older Instructions pertaining to some Older files ===
     33
    134You need three files msdos.sys command.com and io.sys to boot into a dos environment.[[BR]]
    235To Format the USB Stick , I used to the HP Utility called {{{HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool }}}. Run the HP utility with the location of these 3 files and you are done. [[BR]]