Hello, Alex Harin <aoh@ucs.co.za> wrote: > > 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. > [...] > Any pointers where I can find the specification, I really need to get this > thing to work. It's somewhere on developer.intel.com in the /pub/ial subdirectory. Sorry, I don't remember the exact path. Try using an FTP search utility and look for the file name bbs101.pdf. However, the changes to the bootrom are not trivial and you need to recompile everything. I'm almost finished with the new bootrom version but still have to adjust the makerom utility. Once I'm ready, are you interested in testing the new version? > It comes with intel boot ROM image as well. I had a look at it with > hexdump and debug.exe -- there is lot's of additional header info. Yup, the headers are part of the BIOS boot specification, which builds on the PCI and PnP BIOS specifications. You would probably need those as well if you want to understand how everything works. gero. -- Hold still while I flame you. - Karl Lehenbauer -- Gero Kuhlmann, Hannover 0511/6497525 (Voice) gero@gkminix.han.de
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