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From: Matthew K. <mka...@ho...> - 2001-10-24 19:54:39
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I have a question that somewhat relates to the one below. I have an ECS K7S5A motherboard (http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/k7s5a.htm), which uses the recent SiS 735 motherboard chipset (Well, chip actually, as the North and South bridges are integrated). The MAC is integrated in the SiS735 chipset (?? I guess this probably an oversimplification of the MAC, but that's what the information says...) & PHY on the motherboard, RealTek RTL8201L to be exact. The motherboard support boot from network, but when attempting to do so, this is what the network boot client displays: Novell Netware Ready Firmware v1.00 (940809) (c) Copyright 1991 - 1994 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved. SiS 900/7016 PCI Adapters DOS ODI Driver v1.10 (001228) (c) Copyright 1998 SiS Corp. All Rights Reserved. RPL-ROM-ADR: 00D0 09F4 800A RPL-ROM-IRQ: 11 RPL-ROM-PIO: D400 RPL-ROM-FFC: 5 ---END Boot Firmware Now the first thing that I notice is the "Novell Netware Ready Firmware" which appears older than salt in relation to the computer industry. Back in 1994, Novell usually still meant usage of the IPX protocol rather than TCP/IP as memory serves. As for a Novell network boot client standard, I am uninformed of such a thing, but I assume that this network boot client is very much different from PXE and whatnot. After the first two lines, I see what appears to be the SiS 900/7016 DOS ODI driver. That seems to make sense I guess. As for the RPL-* lines, these appear to identify the location of the SiS 900 (although I don't know what FFC means) Additional links - SiS 900 LAN driver: http://www.sis.com/support/driver/630lan.htm ECS drivers (including SiS 900 LAN): http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/driver/k7s.htm or http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/download/driver/k7s.htm (both SLOW AS H311) This motherboard is available with and without the onboard-LAN option, and there is a different BIOS for the LAN-capable version. The motherboard uses an AMIBIOS. I grabbed the SiS 900 driver from http://www.rom-o-matic.net/5.0.4/, creating a floppy image that I printed to disk with winrawrite. Maybe I shouldn't have used winrawrite (which I assume is the windows equivalent to the popular DOS rewrite), but it seems to make a bootable floppy: Searching for Boot Record from Floppy...OK .000021.0000 done ROM segment 0x0800 length 0x4000 reloc 0x9400 Etherboot 5.0.4 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [SIS900] Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N Found SIS900 at 0xD400, ROM address 0xFE80 Probing...[SIS900]sis900_probe: Error EEPROM read 0000 sis900_probe: Error MAC address not found No adapter found <sleep> <abort> Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N <= This line is repeated and the following lines are as repeated likewise. The BookPC mentioned below is also made by ECS, but I have just realized that my motherboard and this (older) motherboard utilize different networking chipsets. Anyhow, my speculation is that the built-in network boot code is on the same FLASH chip as the BIOS, but what do I know? Somebody else here probably understands this far better than I. I would like to get Etherboot or a PXE-compliant boot-loader or something more usable installed if possible, but if it isn't very possible, then that would be interesting information as well. Thanks! Matt Kanar mka...@ho... *** I am searching for a job with a better company than my present employer, Nortel Networks. http://kanar.net/resume Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: eth...@li... [mailto:eth...@li...] On Behalf Of Marty Connor Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:41 AM To: Etherboot Users Cc: Alexander Subject: [Etherboot-users] Re: HELP ME ! error in bootrom RTL8139 Alexander, As a courtesy I have forwarded your message to the Etherboot-Users mailing list, where perhaps someone can help you. I suggest you join Etherboot-Users to see possible replies. You seem to have PXE code in your BIOS. You can configure your server to allow you to book using that, or you can try using Etherboot from floppy or by replacing the code in your BIOS with Etherboot. Perhaps someone on the list will have some more ideas. Check the Etherboot mailing archives, or www.ltsp.org for more suggestions. I seem to recall some discussion of this. Marty On 10/18/2001 1:53 AM Alexander ra...@ma... wrote: >error in bootrom RTL8139 > >after choice in Boot Agent Configuration MENU (shift + F10): PXE, INT19 >(Always Boot Network First, then local devices) > >From BIOS: >Intel UNDI PXE-2.0 Build 082 >Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporaton >For Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/8130) Based Fast Ethernet Controller v2.11 >(001205) > >PXE-EC1: Base-Code ROM ID structure was not found. >PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM > >What can i do to get normal prompt about DHCP and TFTP services? >Or it shows me, that this adapter isn' have the bootrom? >Plese, send me utils for operation with etherboot, if it help in my case. > >My hardware: >PC-BOOK >Model : BKi810 (made in China) >5.1 Chanel > >chipset 810E >net adapter onboard --- Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly. Name: Marty Connor US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA Voice: (617) 491-6935, Fax: (617) 491-7046 Email: md...@th... 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