Hi Guys
Does anyone know which hardware vendors in Bombay that provide Bootrom and can burn images on them? I have deployed an LTSP server solution at the office and need to get bootroms for my LAN cards and burn the Etherboot code into them.
Also I need PXE flash roms for my Intel LAN cards.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Regards
Rishi
Rishi I just finished that and I had hard time finding bootrom and intel cards which can take etherboot images directly but no luck.
If you are lucky get normal intel cards and ATMEL chips in loose from Lamington road. Also new DFE-538 cards has bootrom slots but I had not luck with different rom images which I burned on them.
I got PXE bootrom cards and instead of using etherboot images directly on the card I installed etherboot images on the DHCP server (DHCP Server 3) which works beautifully though boot time is little bit longer.
Let me know how many cards you want and I'll try and get them for you.
You can contact me on 56989873/74 extn 22.
Regards Krishna
Rishi Gangoly wrote:
Hi Guys
Does anyone know which hardware vendors in Bombay that provide Bootrom and can burn images on them? I have deployed an LTSP server solution at the office and need to get bootroms for my LAN cards and burn the Etherboot code into them.
Also I need PXE flash roms for my Intel LAN cards.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Regards
Rishi
I got PXE bootrom cards and instead of using etherboot images directly on the card I installed etherboot images on the DHCP server (DHCP Server 3) which works beautifully though boot time is little bit longer.
Hi Krishna,
Thanks for responding...
With the latest LTSP 3.0 kernel, there appeared to be PXE boot capability which by passes Etherboot stage or something and that works great. I just downloaded the latest version of PXE flash DOS utility from the Intel Website and it worked on the Intel card that previously had a flashrom on it....
However, I think that it required both, the motherboad BIOS to support network card booting? Or I may be mistaken.
The thing is that I have a lot of computers that may not support booting from network cards... or I'm probably mistaken.. I'll check it out with the Intel Card that I have and see if it boots from any type of motherboard...
Let me know how many cards you want and I'll try and get them for you.
You can contact me on 56989873/74 extn 22.
Shall give you a call in case I get stuck. ;-)
Regards
Rishi
On Thursday 05 Feb 2004 9:13 am, Krishna Dagli wrote:
Lamington road. Also new DFE-538 cards has bootrom slots but I had not luck with different rom images which I burned on them.
Where did you get an Eprom burner from? If you have one, we could gettogether and try it out to see if we can get it to work.
Regards
Rishi
On Thursday 05 Feb 2004 9:13 am, Krishna Dagli wrote:
Rishi I just finished that and I had hard time finding bootrom and intel cards which can take etherboot images directly but no luck.
Hi Krishna,
I don't think there are bootroms available for Intel Lan cards.
If you are lucky get normal intel cards and ATMEL chips in loose from Lamington road.
That's exactly what I need.
I have 3 Intel Lan Cards with the ATMEL chips soldered to the PCB. But the rest of my Lan cards are without any ATMEL chips and have just a socket to hold these chips.
I've scanned images of my LAN cards and you can see what I've got.
Card without ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_wo_br.jpg
Card with ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_w_br.jpg
I got PXE bootrom cards and instead of using etherboot images directly on the card I installed etherboot images on the DHCP server (DHCP Server 3) which works beautifully though boot time is little bit longer.
The newer LTSP kernels support PXE booting and thus did not need Etherboot images to boot. Also it's quite fast with PXE booting. Maybe we should visit each others office and compare notes. ;-)
Let me know how many cards you want and I'll try and get them for you.
I just need lots of those ATMEL chips. Where can I get them and how much for each?
You can contact me on 56989873/74 extn 22.
Will call you for sure on Monday. Any other number I can reach you at on a Sunday? ;-)
My number is 9821920284...
Regards
Rishi
Rishi Gangoly wrote:
On Thursday 05 Feb 2004 9:13 am, Krishna Dagli wrote:
Rishi I just finished that and I had hard time finding bootrom and intel cards which can take etherboot images directly but no luck.
Hi Krishna,
I don't think there are bootroms available for Intel Lan cards.
If you are lucky get normal intel cards and ATMEL chips in loose from Lamington road.
That's exactly what I need.
I have 3 Intel Lan Cards with the ATMEL chips soldered to the PCB. But the rest of my Lan cards are without any ATMEL chips and have just a socket to hold these chips.
I've scanned images of my LAN cards and you can see what I've got.
Card without ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_wo_br.jpg
Card with ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_w_br.jpg
Looked the cards. If I'm not mistaken then they are 721383-008(9) series, with them either ATMEL or SST chips should work. I think you will get SST chips hopefully.
I got PXE bootrom cards and instead of using etherboot images directly on the card I installed etherboot images on the DHCP server (DHCP Server 3) which works beautifully though boot time is little bit longer.
The newer LTSP kernels support PXE booting and thus did not need Etherboot images to boot. Also it's quite fast with PXE booting. Maybe we should visit each others office and compare notes. ;-)
Here I'm totaly clueless, I use debian, hand create base image then chroot /var/lib/diskless/default/root. This way server can be on stable while all nodes can run testing/unstable as on nodes I require to have latest of everything.
Let me know how many cards you want and I'll try and get them for you.
I just need lots of those ATMEL chips. Where can I get them and how much for each? Will call you for sure on Monday. Any other number I can reach you at on a Sunday? ;-)
My number is 9821920284...
Will hopefully catch-up at LUG meeting.
-krd
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Krishna Dagli -
Rishi Gangoly