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Installing the Boot Agent Driver Software
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Overview
The Allied Telesyn Fast Ethernet adapter provides PXE (Preboot
Execution Environment) and RPL (Remote Program Load) support. Multi-
Boot Agent (MBA) is a software module that allows your networked
computer to boot with the images provided by remote servers across the
network. The MBA driver complies with the PXE-2.1 specification and is
released with both monolithic and split binary images. This provides
flexibility to users on different environments where the motherboard may
or may not have built-in base-code.
Enabling and
Disabling MBA
MBA is enabled by default. To enable MBA, boot up into DOS. Place the
Allied Telesyn CD -ROM in the CD drive.
d:\diagnostics
b57udiag -mba [ 0-disable | 1-enable ] -c <devnum>
where:
devnum= specific device(s) number (0,1,2,...) to be
programmed
Boot Method
By default, MBA detects if the BIOS supports BBS (BIOS Boot
Specification). If the BIOS supports BBS, then MBA uses BBS as the boot
method. If it does not support BBS, then it uses Int18h instead. However,
for some legacy machines equipped with an old BIOS, this may not work.
In this case, you must force MBA to use Int18h, Int19h, or BBS as the boot
method.
To specify the boot method, press the following keys when you see the
startup banner:
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Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet Boot Agent v3.1.29
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation
All rights reserved
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1. For Int18h: Ctrl + F8
2. For Int19h: Ctrl + F9
3. For BBS: Ctrl + F10