Re: [Etherboot-developers] Award rom lister

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Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes:

> On 4/11/01 8:00 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote:
> >Here is a cleaned up version of my award rom decoder, now that I have
> >used this reverse engineering to get etherboot into the curdls
> >motherboard. 
> >If someone wants they can build now take lharc and my program
> >and build an opensource version of cbrom...
> 
> Eric, this is excellent!  We get a lot of requests from people about how 
> to flash a motherboard BIOS.  This is a great tool!

Says Marty without running it...
 
> I would very much like to document BIOS flashing procedures for the 
> Etherboot documentation.  Would anyone who knows how to do this please 
> send me mail?  We are working on getting the Etherboot documentation into 
> Docbook XML, and this would be a really nice section.

Basically what I do is I get the bios flash utility and a bios update
from the motherboard vendor.  At least on some versions of the award
bios they store their drivers to flash the rom in the new romimage itself.

Then once I have an image I know I can flash you can take my tool and
see with an award bios how all of the plugin roms are laid out.

Going further is an art.  It is not longer a black art, but it is
still an art.  Bioses are choosy about which plugin roms they run.  If
the bios already has a PXE rom, replace it and imitate it as closely
as possible with etherboot.  

Eric