[LinuxBIOS] Extraction of vga bios from .BIN file?

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 21:31:59 CEST 2006


On 4/24/06, Eric Poulsen <eric at zyxod.com> wrote:

> Okay,
>
> I tried awardeco, and it DOES NOT list the VGA ROM, but CBROM (under the
> "dosbox" emulator) worked well.

Please keep track of your procedure,  what tools worked and didn't
work, where you got them from, etc so we can put it on the wiki.

> Only one thing -- the extracted VGA ROM is _exactly_ 64000 bytes
> (instead of 65536) -- do I need to pad it out (with zeros?) before
> concatenating it with LinuxBIOS to achieve the final burnable image?

Yes. dd can snap it to the right size for you.  You could also tweak
your ROM_SIZE to make it match.

--
Richard A. Smith




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