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List:       voyage-linux
Subject:    Re: [Voyage-linux] Network Booting voyage on the wrap
From:       "Kim-man 'Punky' TSE" <punkytse () punknix ! com>
Date:       2006-08-25 6:53:08
Message-ID: 44EE9E54.3040505 () punknix ! com
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Hi Uli,

Thank you for your professional and "dangerous" tips.  Could add it to 
the wiki please?  Any bits of your contribution could help voyage linux 
users.

- Punky

Uli Raich wrote:
> Hi all,
> Since ~ 3 weeks I have a Wrap-2c board. I installed voyage and I found
> the description for pxe booting on the wiki. Remote booting works fine
> for me however nfs mounting the root file system still gives me some
> trouble.
> On the Wiki there is a last chapter: "Remaining issue on the Wrap" which
> explains that you have to type "N" in order to start network booting.
> I have found the solution and wanted to report on it:
> Since the problem is in TinyBios and the BIOS flash of the wrap must be
> reprogrammed this is a little risky. If you follow my desciption and you
> end up with a corrupted BIOS and your board is completely dead, then
> this is exclusively your problem! You have been warned!
> This said, let's describe the method:
> I found a wiki page named: "WRAP BIOS upgrade howto added to wiki" which
> had a pointer to
> http://pcengines/wbios111.zip a page where you can find an upgrade to
> TinyBios-1.11. Since 1.11 is the version I have, this did not look very
> promissing. However I learned there, that the flash image consists of 4
> 32kByte blocks. The first one is PC Engines' TinyBios, the second and
> third are empty (0xff) and the last one is a copy of Etherboot. You also
> find the options selected in Etherboot to produce the Etherboot flash
> image. Analysing these options you see that the problems stems from a
> badly selected boot media sequence. If instead of selecting
> "BOOT_NOTHING" as the first boot device (this will in fact select the cf
> card) you select BOOT_NIC (which is in fact the default) then wrap will
> boot from the cf card if there is one inserted but immediately go to the
> network if no cf card is there.
> You can use http://rom-o-matic.net to produce the Etherboot rom image
> very easily.
> Then you must create a bootable msdos cf card (this is rather tricky and
> I succeeded only with a cf card to IDE adapter and declaring the cf card
> the main msdos disk c:).  Onto this card I put the content of
> wbios111.zip. You have to rename the output of rom-o-matic to pxe.bin
> and concatenate the 4 blocks using cat.bat found in wbios111. Finally I
> used setbios, also found on wbios111 to re-flash the bios. For more info
> have a look in the README of wbios111.
> Now my wrap board behaves as expected.
> Uli
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