Re: Etherboot in Award Bios

[Dirk von Suchodoletz <dirk@goe.net>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Klaus Muth wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> I tried it today:
> 1. take bios chip (winbond W29C020C) out

Fine :-))

> 2. read the bios on my eprommer

Right!

> 3. modify bios with cbrom124.exe:
>    cbrom award31.bin /isa rtl8139.rom D000:0
>    (the rtl8139 rom is from etherboot 4.4.0, working on most of my dikless
>    clients)

Hm, better use cbrom.exe (Version 2.04) link is on my page:

http://www.boardrunner.com/download/utility/utility.htm
or I could mail it to you...

Then: cbrom award31.bin /pci  rtl8139.rom
We flashed over 180 bioses this way. It's a pci network adaptor, so the
/isa option may not work.

> 4. write it to another Chip (27F020)

good to have a backup :-)

> 5. put it to an igel-J terminal
> 6. power on
> 7. Sounds like booooop-bopbop *pause* dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee (and so on).

Try the newer (better) cbrom and use the /pci option.

So long,
	  Dirk

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