Friday 19 February 2016

Make a UEFI-bootable .imgPTN file from a Toshiba BIOS update ISO file


Toshiba BIOS update ISOs can be booted from Easy2Boot in MBR\CSM mode. They typically boot to a DOS hard disk image.



The image can be seen to contain an \EFI\BOOT folder and so should also UEFI-boot.

However, if we try to convert the ISO to a .imgPTN file for Easy2Boot, by dragging-and-dropping the ISO onto the MPI_FAT32 shortcut, these files are not extracted.

If we use 7Zip to open the ISO, we see a [BOOT] folder which holds the boot sectors, and inside this we can see a 512-byte(?) .img file...



and inside that a 32MB FAT16 image...


However, 7Zip will not extract the .img file correctly.

The solution is to use IsoBuster. Simply right-click on the BootImage.img file and extract it.


Now we can simply drag-and-drop the .img file onto the MPI_FAT32 shortcut to make our .imgPTN file and MBR or UEFI-boot from it.


The Toshiba BIOS updater boots to an EFI shell where you can run UBIOS to start the BIOS update.





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