Re: [Etherboot-users] How to boot a workstation with built-in LAN card
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From: Stephen L. <sa...@wr...> - 2002-09-24 14:17:24
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Hi Anselm, Thanks for your detail information. At 02:07 PM 9/24/2002 +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > > How to boot a workstation with built-in LAN card on motherboard other= than > > using floppy to boot. There is no socket for boot-ROM. Any other > > solution? > >You could upgrade your Motherboard's bios. That means getting it to a disk, >applying cbrom.exe with an etherboot ROM file and then burning it back. No >guarantee though that your BIOS works afterwards :-( I didn't try it yet. I have program burner and EPROM available and can burn a new BIOS without=20 touching the original. Where can I find the file to burn on the=20 EPROM? The website of the motherboard ? Thanks Stephen Liu >Another cahance is you have an old 10MBit-NIC you don't want to use for >connectivity (as onboards perhaps is 100MBit). You could try to put a rom= =20 >for the >onboard nic onto the 10MBit card (maybe even ISA). Don't forget to enable >the ROM slot with the shipped software (my error some time ago - took some >time to find out that you have to explicitely enable the slot on many= cards). > >Another chance is your BIOS is PXE enabled. Enter BIOS and look for Boot >priority (often inside "Advanced" options menu). If it allows to enter >"Network", just do that. Perhaps it comes up with PXE support (not all=20 >that boards >with onboard NIC do, but even the very affordable Elitegroup ECS-K7S5A does >(runs AMD up to 2+ GHz for 50 Euro)). >If there is PXE, read the PXE-Etherboot howto. Found either at= etherboot.org >or at ltsp.org, my brain won't tell me anymore. > >If nothing works.... hmmmm... don't know. Ask again or so :-) > >Anselm > >-- >Werden Sie mit uns zum "OnlineStar 2002"! Jetzt GMX w=E4hlen - >und tolle Preise absahnen! http://www.onlinestar.de |