Re: PCI cards and Phoenix BIOS

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

Alex Harin <aoh@ucs.co.za> wrote:
> > You might try disabling caching / shadowing ( long shot ) - but I've only
> > seen problems like this in a 486/PCI system.
> 
> I have tryed to change every single option in the BIOS -- no luck.
> Btw this BIOS has got an option of chosing network as boot device.
> Is it possible that it needs a different point of entry into the
> bootrom code?

That's likely. I suppose that your BIOS requires the bootrom to be compliant
with the BIOS boot specification as published by Phoenix, Compaq and Intel.
However, it should still be able to work with legacy bootroms according to
that specification, but maybe it doesn't. The next netboot release will
be compliant with the BIOS boot specification, so this problem should be
solved then (and yes, you should be able to select network boot from the
BIOS setup then). However, it will take quite some time to finish that next
version.

gero.

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