I have been trying to boot from the BIOS, after I loaded the bootrom file into the BIOS, on a few Pentium I's that I have. With the machines that have an AMI BIOS I have been successfull. But on the machines with an Award BIOS no success. The only differance is that on the AMI machines I can set the boot sequence in the BIOS setup to boot from Network. On the Award machines the BIOS do not have the option in the boot sequence for booting from Network\Lan.
On both machines I use a RTL8029 PCI NIC. QUESTION: How can I get the machine with the Award BIOS to boot from the NIC. (Not to make this mail too long I won't list all the different things I've tried. eg set NIC to use romboot although the romboot socket is empty) On both machines I follow the same steps. 1. Boot from DOS floppy. 2. Copy the ROM BIOS to a file on the floppy with Uniflash.exe 3.1 With the AMI BIOS file I use amibcp70.exe to delete modules from the file to make space for the etherboot romboot module I got from http://rom-o-matic.net (because the latest romboot files from rom-o-matic are 32k I use the release 5.0.11 file that is 16k because of lack of space in the file). I then add the romboot module to the file. 3.2 With the Award BIOS I use awdbedit.exe to modify the file. 4. Flash the modified file back to the BIOS chip with Uniflash.exe 5. On the AMI machine I set the first boot sequence as Network (Award do not have this option). 6. Then reboot. On the AMI machine it immediately start calling for the DHCP but on the Award machine it just keep on asking for a boot device. Nico ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
