Hi everyone -- I'm running into another tough problem. Initially I used to netboot by 3com 100Mbps cards.
As I was advancing on gPXE, I realized that I can flash the Boot ROM to the Option ROM area of the BIOS to make the gigabit LAN-On-Motherboard work without the need for 3com cards. However, flashing the Option ROM on my Dell stations -- while it works -- it is too dangerous, as my Dells don't have a backup BIOS chip or anything to recover from a bad BIOS flash. So I decided to have 3com 905 cards to serve as dummy ROM-carriers for my gigabit LOM. It works, but there is one inconvenience about it is that doing so will make the 3com cards not self-hosting -- they can't boot by themselves anymore, but have to depend on something else to boot. I wonder if I can cram both the driver for the 3com card and the driver for the Gigabit LOM (tg3) into one ROM file. This would make the 3com cards self-hosting (if no compatible LOM is found). Anyone has done that -- if that's at all possible. I'm willing to apply some hacks, but gPXE makefile is kind of too big and confusing to me. _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list gPXE@etherboot.org http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe