[Gllug] Net-booting one of those small form factor boards (as seen at last meeting)

[John Hearns]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 14:13, John Winters wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>
> 
> I can get as far as it knowing what file it needs to fetch and it asks
> the tftp server for it, then the PC stops with "TFTP  Too many
> packages".
> 
I'll forward you a copy of my pxe.conf file.

I think the 'secret' was 
[UseDHCPPort]
0


> Subsidiary question.  Is there any way to upgrade the BIOS to the
> current version without any drives and without MS-DOS (of which I don't
> have a copy)?  The boards seem to ship with a rather out-of-date BIOS
> and apparently it won't recognise all the RAM until it's upgraded.

Have a look at the Linuxbios utils. 
http://www.cwlinux.com/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages/README
Might/might not be of use.


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