I'd not go through the BIOS rom, I'd go through the NIC. Less chance of losing hundred$ of dollars of silicon. AMD Lance, Intel EE16, and some NE2K's had onboard PROMS for ISA; NE2K-PCI, 10bt Tulips, and most early PCI cards had them as well, but they rapidly became extinct.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote: >On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:02:54PM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: ><SNIP> >> I think some kind of 1 floppy linux, as you mentioned, might work fine for >> you. Other possibilities are floppy based tftp (aka diskless) boot and >> (if you have access to a burner) eprom based tftp boot. ><SNIP> > >Sorry to intrude, but this last bit was too good to pass up! I have access >to DATA I/O burner that will happily do EPROMs like those Award's BIOS came >on in those older MBs. Where are docs on how to muck with this to make an >intelligent ROM boot (like Sun hdwr does)? > >TIA, >Mike > > > -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
