12 Jan
2002
12 Jan
'02
5:35 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Pat Finnegan wrote:
What you have said is basically what I was planning to
do. Unfortunately,
after careful analysis of the screen printing next to the chips ("odd" and
"even" is printed there), I've determined that it won't be quite that
easy. I'm thinking about dumping the rom images and replacing part of it
if possible. I was hoping to use etherboot, but I'm not sure if I'll be
able to get it onto the system easily. Perhaps I can use the 34pin header
for that?
So there are 2 roms, odd/even, one being the Phoenix bios, and the other
labeled with a 3com number?
It could be the odd/even labeling isn't accurate. I've see a few boards
labeled like that where the silk screening didn't reflect what the chips
really did. I have no idea if this unit used odd/even roms, however. What
sizes are the chips? That might help determine what 3com did. Did you
already try booting it with the 3com chip pulled?
I almost wish I had one of these to play with myself :)
-Toth