Re: [Etherboot-developers] Award rom lister

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 4/12/01 1:44 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote:
>Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes:
>> 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 should have been a little more precise.  Your tool is an excellent 
idea.  You are correct that I have not run it yet.  Of course I haven't 
driven a BMW, but I hear they are excellent cars and the company that 
makes them has a good reputation...

>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.  

I appreciate and respect the art and science of BIOS flashing, and want 
to help make it easier for people who are less skilled in the art, just 
as 
rom-o-matic.net makes it easier to make Etherboot ROMS.

I have found these two web pages which describe how to insert Etherboot 
code into an Award BIOS and flash it:

   http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ltsp_bookpc_howto.html
   http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ltsp_bookpc2_howto.html
   
Hopefully these articles will help those who have asked about how to do 
this.

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