Re: PCI cards and Phoenix BIOS

[Alex Harin <aoh@ucs.co.za>]

> Hello,
> 
> Alex Harin <aoh@ucs.co.za> wrote:
> > > You might try disabling caching / shadowing ( long shot ) - but I've only
> > > seen problems like this in a 486/PCI system.
> > 
> > I have tryed to change every single option in the BIOS -- no luck.
> > Btw this BIOS has got an option of chosing network as boot device.
> > Is it possible that it needs a different point of entry into the
> > bootrom code?
> 
> That's likely. I suppose that your BIOS requires the bootrom to be compliant
> with the BIOS boot specification as published by Phoenix, Compaq and Intel.
> However, it should still be able to work with legacy bootroms according to
> that specification, but maybe it doesn't. The next netboot release will
> be compliant with the BIOS boot specification, so this problem should be
> solved then (and yes, you should be able to select network boot from the
> BIOS setup then). However, it will take quite some time to finish that next
> version.
> 
> gero.


I have got the BIOS boot specification from Phoenix and by making 
some changes to Etherboot loader (adding PCI and PnP headers) got
my etherexpress to boot, just that I cannot erase the flash now 
as it does not want to do stiffy boot anymore. 
Will have to set up dos ramdisk I guess...

Cheers,

Alex