Loading image.flo with LILO or get Phoenix 4.04 to work with bootrom

[Erik Starback <erik@math.uu.se>]

Hello!

I'am trying to boot a Siemens Nixdorf PCD-5L (PHOENIX 4.04 BIOS) over
network. It works fine with a floppy with image.flo on it, but I can't
manage to get the computer to run boot code on EPROM. I have tried
ISA 3c509 with netboot 7.3, 8.0, 8.1 and etherboot 4.0; PCI D-Link
DFE500TX (tulip chipset) with netboot 7.3. With netboot I have tried
both with and without "Do you want the bootrom to look for boot drives
first".

The DFE500TX works fine with Award-BIOS.

I have a 3c509 with a commercial bootrom (Lanworks bootware 1.11) and the
computer execute that boot-code perfectly!

Does anybody know how to get Phoenix 4.04 execute bootrom from netboot or
etherboot?

If not, is it possible to put the boot-code from etherboot or netboot
on a hard disc? Get LILO to load image.flo?...

I have a couple of 80MB HDs that could be used as swap and bootloader
if that is possible.

If someone can help me with this, I can use 12 Pentium 100MHz as
diskless (or possible with swap) Linux-boxes. Then I get rid of 12
windows 3.1 installations, and that would be real nice!

/Erik S
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