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====== Burning gPXE into Intel gigabit (e1000) cards ====== Intel provides a utility called IBAUtil which allows you to update the expansion ROM images in Intel gigabit network cards. ===== Renaming the ROM image ===== Give the gPXE ROM image a name suitable for Intel's IBAUtil ROM-burning tool: cp bin/pci_8086_107c.rom 8086107c.iba where //bin/pci_8086_107c.rom// is the gPXE ROM image that you have just built, and //8086107c.iba// is formed from the PCI vendor and device IDs (//8086// and //107c// respectively in this example). ===== Preparing the tools ===== Download and save the two files: * A FreeDOS boot disk, [[http://rom.etherboot.org/boot/dosboot.img|dosboot.img]] * Intel's IBAUtil ROM-burning tool, available as part of [[http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_desc.aspx?agr=N&DwnldID=8242|PROBOOT.exe]] Copy your gPXE ROM image to the FreeDOS boot disk: mcopy -i dosboot.img 8086107c.iba :: where //8086107c.iba// is the renamed gPXE ROM image as created earlier. Run //PROBOOT.exe//. This is a Windows application; if you don't have a Windows installation available then you should be able to run it under Linux using [[http://www.winehq.org/|Wine]]. //PROBOOT.exe// will extract several files to the directory //C:\Intel12.3//; the single file you want is //C:\Intel12.3\IBAUtil.exe//. Copy //IBAUtil.exe// to the FreeDOS boot disk: mcopy -i dosboot.img /path/to/IBAUtil.exe :: where ///path/to/IBAUtil.exe// is the path to your extracted copy of //IBAUtil.exe//. ===== Creating the boot disk ===== Transfer the boot disk image to a floppy disk: dd if=dosboot.img of=/dev/fd0 If you do not have a floppy disk available, you can create a bootable CD-ROM using mkisofs -b dosboot.img -o dosboot.iso dosboot.img and then burn the ISO image //dosboot.iso// to a recordable CD-ROM. ===== Burning the gPXE ROM ===== Boot from the floppy disk (or CD-ROM). At the DOS //A:\>// prompt, type ibautil -restore -all
