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

Means all the card (PCI /ISA) having bootrom socket having etherboot
.zrom image burnt on EEPROM can get a linux nbi tagged kernel from
DHCP.  If it is wrong correct please. Anotherthing i wish to confirm -
Can each and every NIC card cabale og netbooting can start etherboot
coad from EEPROM? Somewhere I read that some NIC (perticularaly newer
one) are designed for booting PXE code and some other
etherboot/netboot?

opinion awaited.

>>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,
>  Vladimir                            mailto:[email protected]


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