Re: Re: Etherboot-developers digest, Vol 1 #1332 - 3 msgs

Hi Borg No. One

Thank you for warning me about the problems with
AwdBedit.

You asked:
1.) Motherboard model?:

    This is a link to the motherboard that the pc have:
    http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/pcchips/m520.htm

2.) The module type I used when inserting the etherboot
file?:
    I put the etherboot file into the
    Award 4.51 BIOS file as a PCI type and I also tried
    Other type. None of them tried the NIC as boot device.

        PCI
 	cbrom215 backup.bin /pci eb-5_1~1.zro

        Other 
 	cbrom215 backup.bin /other 0800:0000 eb-5_1~1.zro

     (the original file name that I got from
     www.rom-o-matic.net is eb-5(1).2.4-rtl8029.zrom
     - the file name was shortened on the stiffy by
     the DOS file convention (8.3) and that was what I
     used.)

 I used Uniflash to copy the original BIOS file and after  
 I made changes I used it to flash it back to the BIOS.
 One of the other things that I tried is to Enable the
 Bootrom on the NIC although
 the bootrom socket is empty. That made no differance.


 On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:53:27 +0100 (MET)
> >  "Borg No. One" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Nico Oosthuizen.
> >>
> >> 1.)
> >> As you can see (eMail address), I am Borg Number One -
> >> the author of the
> >> BNOBTC and a person with many in-depth BIOS
> modification
> >> skills.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tell me your motherboard model and tell me which kind
> of
> >> module type did you
> >> used when you inserted the etherboot into the award
> 4.51
> >> BIOS file.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2.)
> >>
> >> AwdBedit is a really nice application for basic Award
> >> BIOS modifications in
> >> Windows and I know it for many years.
> >> But AwdBedit does not re-build working modified Award
> >> BIOS files in many
> >> cases.
> >> It is not recommend to use this application with "new"
> >> Phoenix - Award BIOS
> >> files.
> >>
> >>> I have been trying to boot LTSP by flashing a bootrom
> >> into
> >>> the BIOS of some Pentium I's I have.
> >>> I had success on the machines with AMI BIOS but not
> on
> >> the
> >>> machines with Award BIOS.
> >>> The only differance is that in the AMI BIOS machines
> I
> >> can
> >>> choose the boot sequence in the BIOS setup to boot
> from
> >>> Network. In the Award BIOS machines with Award BIOS
> >> 4.51
> >>> there is no option for Network\Lan boot in the boot
> >>> sequence of the BIOS setup.
> >>> I have seen that on the machines with Award BIOS 6.0
> >> there
> >>> is the option for Network boot in the BIOS setup.
> >>>
> >>> QUESTION:
> >>> How can I get the machines with the Award BIOS 4.51
> to
> >> know
> >>> that it must use the bootrom file I flashed into the
> >> BIOS
> >>> for booting.
> >>>
> >>> Have a look at this Award BIOS editor. It's a full
> >>> graphical editor for Windows. And it is licenced
> under
> >> GPL.
> >>>
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/awdbedit/
> >>>
> >>> Nico


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