Re: Etherboot in Award Bios

[Rapp Informatik Systeme GmbH <info@rapp-informatik.de>]

Klaus Muth wrote:

 
Next board (Soyo LI7100, nice thing for $500), next try: My cbrom reads:
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CBROM V2.04A (C)Award Software 1999 All Rights Reserved.

              ********     soyo.bin BIOS component ********

 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
  0. System BIOS       20000h(128.00K) 12E76h(75.62K)  7IWL4AA1.BIN
  1. XGROUP CODE       0B0B0h(44.17K)  0792Fh(30.30K)  awardext.rom
  2. CPU micro code    00800h(2.00K)   00827h(2.04K)   CPUCODE.BIN
  3. ACPI table        02B55h(10.83K)  011FFh(4.50K)   ACPITBL.BIN
  4. EPA pattern       00642h(1.56K)   002A1h(0.66K)   AWARDEPA.BIN
  5. VGA ROM[1]        08000h(32.00K)  04F57h(19.83K)  i810.vga
  6. VRS ROM           00D46h(3.32K)   00892h(2.14K)   c:\bios\cbrom\pbva130e.bin
  7. PCI driver[A]     04000h(16.00K)  02311h(8.77K)   rtl8139.rom

  Total compress code space  = 4D000h(308.00K)
  Total compressed code size = 23F66h(143.85K)
  Remain compress code space = 2909Ah(164.15K)

                      ** Micro Code Information **
Update ID  CPUID  ¦  Update ID  CPUID  ¦  Update ID  CPUID  ¦  Update ID  CPUID
------------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------
PPGA   03   0665  ¦
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
my etherboot says: NOTHING. Hrmpf. As I understood: the [A] means, that pci
extensions are disabled at compile time?
What shall I do? I'm definitely no BIOS wizard...

Yes it seems this Bios can't be patched. Award dont't give any information.
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