biosdisk.8

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.TH biosdisk 8 "November 2004" "Version 0.62"
.SH NAME
biodisk \- BIOS Flash disk image creation
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B biosdisk
.I [action] [options] filename
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B biosdisk
is a utility that can be used to make a FreeDOS ISO image that can be
used to flash a Dell system BIOS from GRUB2.

.SH FILENAME GUIDELINES
.TP
The filename can be a file local to the system, or it can be an ftp or http URL to a raw BIOS file. For example, passing "http://somedomain.com/700m_A00.exe" or "ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/700m_A00.exe" to biosdisk will work correctly.

.SH ACTIONS
.TP
Note that some options may be silently ignored depending on what distribution biosdisk is run on.
.TP
.B mkimage
Creates a ISO image on the system's hard drive. Requires the user to pass
the location of the raw BIOS executable file
.TP 
.B install
Will create a biosdisk image (if raw .exe file passed), copy biosdisk image
file to /boot, and update the bootloader with an entry for the new image. 
This is ignored on Debian systems.
.TP 
.B uninstall
Will remove the biosdisk image file from /boot, and remove the BIOS entry
corresponding to that image from the bootloader configuration file. This is 
ignored on Debian systems.
.TP

.SH FILENAME
.TP
The file name can be either a raw BIOS DOS executable file for the mkimg. However, the file must end in one of the following: .exe, .EXE. The filename should also be the full path to the file.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -o <option>
Option to be passed to BIOS executable file at runtime. Can be used with 
any action
.TP
.B -i <destination>
Path and filename to which the ISO from the mkimage action will
be written. If not specified, it will create an image in /tmp and name the file based 
on the BIOS executable name. 
.TP
.B -h|--help
Prints the biosdisk usage options
.TP
.SH AUTHOR
John Hull (john_hull@dell.com)
.SH WEBPAGE
.I http://github.com/dell/biosdisk