Installing etherboot in Intel Pro/100 cards
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:45:55 +0200 (MEST) From: Erik Starback <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Netboot with Intel EEPRO100+ Management Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] X-Moderator: [email protected] X-UIDL: 6ca8453c19c46d622813e9be8ada9517 Status: O X-Status: Hello! When Intel eepro100+ NIC disappeared from the market, I didn't know what to do. I didn't find any information if anyone has used the new eepro100+ Management Adapter to netboot linux. I thought that the card should netboot with the same configuration as the old card when I read Donald Beckers comment: > The driver should "just work" with the '559. It's not supposed to be > substantially different than the '558. (I don't have a datasheet > or sample card to confirm this statement.) The problem was now only to put the netboot-program to the built in flash memory on the NIC. With the old card I used a flash memory (Intel N28F020 [N28010 didn't work])) and the program FUTIL.EXE from Intel to flash it. FUTIL did't recognize the memory on the management card and did not work therefore. I found the intel program FBOOT.EXE that was made to upgrade the built in Intel BOOT agent. I did: Boot dos from floppy, Run FBOOT (choose adapter), choose (u)pdate, choose Create restore image, rename the backup file (in my case 2743BE52.FLS [the eight last hex digits from the MAC address]), rename your netboot code (in my case netboot 0.8.1) to the backup files original name (in my case 2743BE52.FLS), run FBOOT, choose (r)estore. Voila! A shorter way (if you don't need the backup of the old Intel BOOT agent code) is of course: rename netboot file to [the eight last hex digits from the MAC address].FLS, run FBOOT, choose restore. Caution: I think it is possible to make a NIC unusable if you have made the netboot (or etherboot) file with "wrong" parameters. A couple of month ago I did a etherboot boot file and put it on an old EEPRO100+ card. It worked fine, but it was impossible to boot local with it. So I could not boot dos and with FUTIL or FBOOT erase the flash memory! To erase the chip I had to take out the memory chip, boot dos and then put in the memory chip. This isn't possible when the memory chip is build in. Links: <http://support.intel.com/support/landesk/configmgr/LSA1_193.HTM> FUTIL.EXE is a part of LSA1_193.ZIP <http://support.intel.com/support/etherexpress/pro100/100pboot.htm> FBOOT.EXE is a part of 100pboot.exe /Erik S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Starbäck, System administrator E-mail address: [email protected] Uppsala University Telephone (o): +46 18 4713277 Department of Mathematics Cellular phone: +46 70 4250260 P. O. Box 480 Fax (o): +46 18 4713201 SE-751 06 UPPSALA Sweden
