Boot the BIOS update tools of MSI's K9N2 SLI Platinum / K9N2 Zilent using PXE


March 2012.
The system used here is a Debian Squeeze.

Create the image:


You will need:


zwm-server:~/msi# wget "http://download1.msi.com/files/downloads/bos_exe/7374v39.zip"
zwm-server:~/msi# wget "ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img"

Mount the FreeDOS image and unzip the utility:

zwm-server:~/msi# mkdir fdboot ourimage
zwm-server:~/msi# unzip 7374v39.zip
zwm-server:~/msi# mount -o loop fdboot.img fdboot

Create and mount a 3MB fat image:

zwm-server:~/msi# dd if=/dev/zero of=ourimage.img bs=1M count=3
zwm-server:~/msi# apt-get install dosfstools
zwm-server:~/msi# mkfs.msdos ourimage.img
zwm-server:~/msi# mount -o loop ourimage.img ourimage

Copy the FreeDOS files and the CD contents to the newly created image disk:

zwm-server:~/msi# cp -r fdboot/* ourimage/
zwm-server:~/msi# mkdir ourimage/msi
zwm-server:~/msi# cp -r 7374v39/* ourimage/msi/

Umount eveything:

zwm-server:~/msi# umount ourimage/
zwm-server:~/msi# umount fdboot/

Copy the boot sector from the original FreeDOS image to ours:

zwm-server:~/western# dd if=fdboot.img of=ourimage.img bs=1 count=446 seek=62 skip=62 conv=notrunc

Boot the image:


What you need:

Boot your computer, start FreeDOS and run the BIOS update utility from the MSI folder.

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