Re: Failure to find EPROM on NIC

[matthew@netsol.net (netsol,matthew)]

Hi guys, 
I burned the freebsd 16k rom binary into the chip and run rom-scan,
surprisingly rom-scan will detect nothing.
Have you guys tried successfully either netboot ne2000 rom or the freebsd
ne2000 rom by burning it into  a EPROM on NIC.

My origial EPROM chip is bought from Novell, whitch has netware's RPL
binary in there.  I erased it and burned in netboot binary.  The original
Novell RPL EPROM is seen by my PC, since I burned in other roms, PC just
don't see any thing.  Maybe I should keep a copy of the erased Novell RPL
binary.

	Matthew
		Future Lab
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> From: markus@infoscape.com
> To: netboot@baghira.han.de
> Subject: Re: Failure to find EPROM on NIC
> Date: Wednesday, October 08, 1997 1:38 PM
> 
> Mike Rushford writes:
>  > Maybe the board can only read the first 16K of the 32K eprom?
> 
> If rom-scan detects a 32kB EPROM, it will run a checksum over the
> entire 32768 bytes. The checksum algorithm is rather brain-dead, but
> in reality it should suffice to detect if an image is only partly
> accessible.
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
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