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PXE was Re: anyone ever try OpenBSD on a Geode GX CPU?



On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Kevin wrote:

> Diana, 
> 
> I fear there is no PXE on the Flytech boxes.  The box
> is on its way back to Flytech so I can't verify at the
> moment.  BTW, have you encountered non-Intel chips
> that have PXE functionality?  
> 
> --Kevin

Yes, 3com supports it and , ugh, Realtek does.  I have the boot rom
image for the Realtek, just don't have access to an [(E)|(EE)]PROM buner
away from the office.  The Kingston card I have that uses the Realtek
chipset has a socket for a bootrom.

There are commercial 3rd party PXE boot roms available from:
http://www.bootix.com/us/products/promtypes.shtml