Re: Trying to flash award bios in Soyo LI-7000

[Alexander Gonzalez Casin <gonzalez@hagos.de>]

Hi,

I think you have to use the DOS-rtl-Tool to activate the Bootrom in the
rtl8139. I know there isn't a Bootrom and you installed the code into the bios,
but nevertheless you have to activate the bootrom.

Greetings, Gonzo


Am Son, 22 Okt 2000 schriebst Du:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm trying to flash an Etherboot rtl8139 module into
>an award bios on a Soyo LI-7000 motherboard.
>
>No matter what options I try with cbrom6, once I flash
>it into the motherboard, the etherboot image is totally
>ignored.
>
>The motherboard has a built-in rtl8139 chipset, with a
>vendor ID of 0x10EC and a Device ID of 0x8139.
>
>I've tried using /pci, /isa, /other, /oem0 as options to
>the cbrom6 command.  The module shows up when I display
>the contents of the bios, but still, once I boot up the
>workstation, it still ignores the etherboot module.
>
>I've tried all kinds of options in the bios setup screen,
>still no go.
>
>I've tried cbrom 2.04, but I usually get 'Unable to write'
>when it tries to write the image out.  This is a 512kbyte
>image and I think that 2.04 can't handle that.
>
>The Award bios is v6.0.
>
>Once I boot the workstation with DOS, I try running rom-scan
>and it doesn't detect the bios extension.
>
>If I insert a real NIC with a bootrom on it, it works just
>fine and attempts to boot from the network.  If I boot dos
>with that card inserted, rom-scan detects that card's 
>extension rom.
>
>I've performed this procedure on lots of other motherboards
>with generally good success.  This one is just getting the
>better of me.  Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim McQuillan
>jam@ltsp.org
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