Re: netboot-rom doesn't start?

[Ton Biegstraaten <a.w.w.m.biegstraaten@twi.tudelft.nl>]

Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> netboot-0.6.1 works fine, _IF_ it works.
> On some PCs the bootrom does not seem to get executed at all.
> No message is printed on screen and normal disk boot is performed.
> The NIC (3C509) is configured ok, etherboot-prom works fine.
> Question: Is there any way for netboot to start and then
> exit to normal boot without any message?
>
May be it's the same problem I had last week and reported upon. The
3C509B wants a 32k eprom, but sees only the first 16K. I also had the
idea nothing happened until I used dos debug that shows those 16k. I
then tried etherboot that has a standard promsize of 16k and that worked
fine.

Ton


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