BIOS

[John Heim]

I am pretty sure that freeDOS has a dhcp client. Google for freedos and you 
will find it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Fehrmann" <henning.fehrmann at aei.mpg.de>
To: <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:37 AM
Subject: BIOS


> Hello everybody,
>
> we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM 
> of the motherboard
> automatically.
>
> Unfortunately, using certain vendors, the access to the NVRAM is not 
> straightforward.
> These vendors are offering DOS tools only, to write in the NVRAM, hence, 
> we have to boot
> a DOS image and here starts the trouble.
>
> Optimally, using the DOS environment flashes the BIOS, sets the
> NVRAM and sends a message to the FAI server to prepare the next boot of 
> the clients for the
> installation.
> This means, we need networking under DOS. In particular, we are looking 
> for a DHCP client.
>
> Has somebody experiences with this?
>
> In the worst case, the DOS environment is working autonomously and the FAI 
> server is 'guessing'
> whether the BIOS is flashed or not, e.g., by analyzing the DHCP logs, but 
> this is not what we really want.
>
> Regards
> Henning Fehrmann
>
>