Re: Etherboot 3c503 image

["Dag Bjerkeli" <dagbj@online.no>]

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:45:53 +0000, Dag Bjerkeli wrote:

>On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:49:37 +1000, Ken Yap wrote:
>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm having problems using the 3c503 image that comes
>>>with the etherboot distribution (etherboot-4_0).  I
>>>have tried both the image under 16 and 32.
>>>
>>>So, what have I tried:
>>>- The image for 3c509 boots OK
>>>- Creating a floppy image for the 3c503 works OK.
>>>- rom-scan says:
>>>     "Found ROM header at DC00:0000; announces 16k image 27C128 EPROM)
>>>      Checksum does not match.  This image is not active"
>>>- I have treid both 27c128 and 27c256 EPROMs
>>
>>I believe the 503 can only accept 8kB worth of image. Have a look with
>>debug to see how big the ROM window is.
>>
>
>Others have also sugested this, so I will try to create an 8k image.
>
>Anyone have some beginers tip on how I set etherboot to create images
>of 8k?
>
>

Well, sort of answering my own question...
8k ROM worked good.  And I found the lzrom to be 8k in size.
But I could not get a larger ROM size to work.  But that
is something usual?

Thanks for the help.

BEst regards

Dag Bjerkeli
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