RE: BIOS flashed etherboot will not start

[Lars Prieske <prieske@planet.de>]

On 11-Apr-00 Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i managed to flash etherboot into an AWARD Bios on an ASUS P2B Mainbord,
> following the instructions in the README.
> However, the flashed code does not start. The system continues to boot
> from Floppy/HD, no message from etherboot.
> Even setting the boot option to "LAN/A/C" would not help.
> 
> I also checked that the PCI/Vendor IDs are correct ( $10B7, $9055 ->
> 3c905b-tpo100.rom ).
> What would happen, if they don't match? Will etherboot start and report
> 'no card found'?
> 
> I used cbrom 2.04, Bios is v4.51PG, 1011, etherboot 4.5.7.
> 
The bios version has to support oem bios. I have successfully patched a AWARD
Bios of an ASUS P2B-N ACPI, but I needed the bios revision 1011. Earlier
versions doesn't work.


Lars

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