dosboot.img (FreeDOS boot disk) is found near the top of this page 
http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/intel under the heading "Preparing the 
Tools". I think I got it some time back. It is not ava on the 
http://rom.etherboot.org/boot/dosboot.img site link anymore.

I'll look for info on dosboot.img and try it on a much older PC.

JC

--- On Wed, 8/3/11, Shao Miller <shao.mil...@yrdsb.edu.on.ca> wrote:

From: Shao Miller <shao.mil...@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Near last step of flashing e1000 ROM with Wifi gPXE the USB 
stick won't boot
To: gpxe@etherboot.org
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 4:29 PM

On 8/3/2011 12:14, J C wrote:
> I tried creating a ROM to flash my Intel PRO/1000 MT NIC with gPXE a wireless 
> boot but I get stuck at creating a Boot Disk. I configured it on Ubuntu 11. 
> Below are the steps I use/d:
> 
>     lspci
>     02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet 
>Controller (rev 02)
>     lspci -n -s 02:06.0
>     02:06.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)
>     #etherboot :http://etherboot.org/
> <gpxe1user> gpxebot: lspci 8086:100e
> <gpxebot> e1000_82540
> 
> I downloaded the gpxe src and compiled it. I can create working ISO's with it 
> and can boot wirelessly with an embedded script. I used a CD. Now I want to 
> flash the ROM on my NIC with this script.
> 
> cd Downloads/gpxe/src
> make bin/8086100e.rom EMBEDDED_IMAGE=wireless.gpxe
> 
>     wireless.gpxe file contents:
>     #!gpxe
>     set net0/ssid MYWIFIAP
>     set net0/key MYWIFIKEY
>     autoboot
> 
> cp bin/8086100e.rom bin/8086100e.iba
> # This is done to refresh with a clean "dosboot.img"
> cp /home/myfolder/Downloads/dosboot.img .
> mcopy -i dosboot.img bin/8086100e.iba ::
> # IBAUtil.exe was automatically extracted when I downloaded PROBOOT.exe
> mcopy -i dosboot.img /home/myfolder/Downloads/APPS_intel/IBAUtil.exe ::
> 
> For USB stick, do this:
>     sudo dd if=dosboot.img of=/dev/sdc1
> 
>     USB stick contents:
> 
>     8086100e.iba
>     AUTOEXEC.BAT (0 bytes)
>     COMMAND.COM
>     CONFIG.SYS (0 bytes)
>     IBAUtil.exe
>     KERNEL.SYS
> 
> For CD, do this, then burn ISO:
>     mkisofs -b dosboot.img -o dosboot.iso dosboot.img
> 
>     CD contents after burning the ISO:
> 
>     boot.cat
>     dosboot.img
> 
> Neither USB stick nor CD work when booting. The screen is just black with a 
> blinking underscore. I've tried them both on several machines. What can I do 
> to get around this?

Everything looks good except...  What is 'dosboot.img'?  Where does it come 
from?  Does its vendor suggest that it can be DDd to any USB stick and that it 
should be expected to work with any BIOS?

- Shao Miller
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