Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been watching this list for a couple of weeks, and I
> have seen some mention of the Asus MES-N motherboard and flashing
> it with Etherboot code.
>
Booting the On board 82558 with Etherboot or Netboot from Floppy is no
problem.
If you have a kernel with eepro100 driver in booting up linux works.
>
>
> My award bios is version 6.0
>
> Where can I get the cbrom utility, and which version do I need?
> I have searched the Asus/Phoenix website and have not found
> the utility.
Best cbrom.exe version 2 because this should work on 4.51 and 6.0 Bioses.
The MES-N have 59k free space on EEPROM so this is not a problem.
I have to use Asus aflash because awdflash bo not work wirh the MES-N (5V
EEPROM)
but I hope this is not the reason why it not works.
>
> Is there anything special I need to do when preparing the
> Intel etherboot code?
This seem to be the truth. On the new cbrom all options like /pci /other work
but the piglet
always wants a boot floppy and do not recognize the ROM Code.
I dont't have success at the moment with Etherboot nor with Netboot. Can't
find the ROM code after
boot with DOS debug.
>
>
> Once I get this working, what is the best way to build lots
> of these? Do I have to plug a floppy drive into each board
> and program them individually?
>
Yes you need to flash all boards.
Greetings
Wolfgang
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