there may also be a dos boot floppy image, which you boot from and then st up the hardware.
screws your uptime rebooting to a dos floppy, c'est la vie. On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:39:53+1300"Fisher, Robert(FXNZ CHC)"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More progress. > I went to the 3Com site and downloaded a dos NIC detection utility > which, when run, shows that the Boot ROM is disabled. > > I still now need to find how to enable it. > > Robert > > Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 4:19 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Etherbooting using EPROM's on the NIC > > do you get any messages from the ethernet card on boot? something > should flash past if it is reading the prom. > > > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:03:30 +1300 > "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have successfully set up LTSP using a floppy to boot 3Com > > 3C905b-tpo100 Network cards but when I try to use an EPROM on the > > NIC it does not boot. How do I know if the PC (I have tried 2) is > > capable of booting using the eprom? > > Maybe the ROM image is not burnt correctly? > > One of the PC's has a BIOS option for "First Boot Device" to be LAN > > but > this > > option did not work either. > > Any advice? > > > > Robert > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
