Re: How to set up a "prefect" router
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>
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>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
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