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Re: Bootrom for 3c905




On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Richard Schroeder wrote:

> I have successfully implemented netboot on my Redhat 6.0 system.  I have
> an Intel SE440BX-2 w/PII and a 3Com 3c905B NIC card.  I've got
> everything ironed out using floppy (image.flo).  I am now ready to burn
> the boot ROM onto a chip.  I have the Atmel AT29C010A 32K EEPROM and
> programmed the image.rom onto it using my I/O programmer using absolute
> binary format.  However, using netboot romcheck, the ROM image does not
> appear in memory.  Any thoughts appreciated.

The EEPROM you named has a size of 1Mbit (=256kByte). Maybe the network
adaptor is unable to find the ROM at all or you have to set ROMSIZE to
256k.

Ciao,
	Dirk

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