>Can I use LAN card to insert other boot roms ( lets say scsi stuff as I have >a firmwarelsee adaptec 1515 scsi card ) that have nothing to do with LAN >card. Yes. And vice versa. I have a broken NE2000 I can use to host an extension ROM. I'm looking for an extension ROM code to boot El Torito CDROMs. >I'm asking this because yesterday a funny thing happened to me: >I wanted to put two lan (card A and card B) cards in one linux box to pot up >firewall. >Card A had no boot rom while card B did (Card A is detecter first by linux). >well at firs reboot card A tried to boot from net (even if rom was on card >B) before booting to linux. > >what is going on ? What is happening is that the ROM is simply mapped into the memory space of the PC. It generally doesn't know which adapter it hosted on. This is not quite true for PCI adapters. The ROM will not appear in the memory space until the BIOS decides to map it in. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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