Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: [Etherboot-developers] Award rom lister

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

> 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...

Just giving you a hard time... :)

> 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 want to help as well. But also to emphasize that because you can't
count on the vendors to support the plugin roms in any particular
fashion.  And that cbrom make it look really easy.  And it isn't
always.

So as well as how to do it for some specific motherboard boards a
presentation of tricks you can try when the the rom doesn't want to
work on your motherboard, should be useful.

Simply knowing how to run cbrom isn't enough...

> Hopefully these articles will help those who have asked about how to do 
> this.

It is certainly a starting point.

Eric