Kelly for Anunta. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Citrix Systems Wyse 6. Best Answer. Ghost Chili. AR-Beekeeper This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». I have no idea what's going on with 1 as the Wyse utility apparently reformats the pen drive as part of its preparation. Reformatting drive before running the utility yet again resulted in a drive that did boot.
An out-of-the-box pen drive is unlikely to have an MBR at the start. My pile of test pen drives usually do as in the past I've used LiLi to put various Linux distributions on them. If you have syslinux to hand the command line you want is: syslinux -m -a X: where X is the drive letter of your USB drive. Alternatively, with your USB drive plugged in to your windows computer, open an administrative command prompt and follow the commands below. In my case the pen drive has appeared as Disk 2. Microsoft Windows [Version All rights reserved.
I've no idea why this is necessary but if you're about to reuse a pen drive I suggest you: right click on it in File Explorer select Format select FAT32 and tick quick format Step 3: Get the latest firmware Support [March ] Unfortunately Dell have now withdrawn support for old Wyse products and shut down the old Wyse support server: see here. As a consequence I've removed the old now dead links in the text below but left the article in case you may be able to track down the firmware elsewhere.
Visit the Wyse support site and go to the S30 download page. This is a self-extracting archive. When you run it you'll get a prompt for where you want the files extracted to. Do I now have an S10 brick? After I little thought I decided that maybe Wyse have some sort of ultimate bootstrap loader on the system that is overlaying the last part of the flash, or maybe some unit specific data like the serial number. Note: A guess of mine that may be wrong. I had a copy of the original full ROM and so could write that back hopefully if necessary.
However I decided to continue in my quest and resorted to the flashrom manual. There I found - as I expected - an easy work-around.
You can create a simple text file that describes how the flash chip is partitioned. You can then use command line parameters to tell flashrom to only operate on specific areas of the flash. Based on the earlier error message which gave an address range where the erase failed I created a simple two-line text file called S Calibrating delay loop Verifying flash Takes deep breath, removes pen drive and reboots The standard firmware is running!
Looking in the "General" tab under "System Information" I can see that it is now running firmware v 6. The serial number is still correct so maybe that is part of the information that was stored in the protected area of the flash address space. So there you have it - a possible way of upgrading the S10 firmware. It worked for me in my one attempt. How reliable this is as an approach I have no idea.
You have been warned. You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility.
The embedded controller EC in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop.
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