Re: which image of NIC (gerenated from rom-o-matix) should be burn for a NIC

Hello thomas,

Monday, May 30, 2005, 11:01:16 AM, you wrote:

> I have installed PXES 1.0 on FC3. Nodes have NIC 8139b. Nodes are
> booting successfully with image (.zdsk) copied on floppies.
> Now I wish to generate rom image from rom-o-matix.com for this card
> (Vendor ID- 10EC,PCI ID- 8139) so that I can burn on EEPROM. But I am
> not able to figure out which image formate i should copy on eeprom out
> of .zrom , .zpxe, .elf (generic) .elf (linux bios).  Ppl help. Any
> documentation that explain has explaination of all different  types of
> image.
 
> How to recognixe that which card support pxe type of booting and which
> etherboot. Any url that can help me in identifying the NIC card boot
> style.
If you are using 'bootp' protocol you should burn '.zrom' image. Your
kernel and rootfs should tagged by 'nbi' utility. As a result you will
get one downloadable file which will contain both kernel and rootfs.
This way will require 32Kb or 16Kb ('.lzrom' - try that juniors versions)
of [EE]PROM. If you wish to use 'pxe' protocol you should find bootrom
pxe-image for your NIC. This way will requier 64K or even 128K [EE]PROM.
I recommend you to use EEPROM for testing. All above is right for
standalong NIC. If you have motherboards with onboard NIC then they
use 'pxe' protocol as a rule.

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Best regards,
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