[Wizard] Solid-state wizard HOWTO

[Cameron Patrick]

G'day all,

Have just managed to get one of my wizards to run with no moving parts
and no other hardware modifications (e.g. Disk-on-chip) needed!! :) :)
It turns out the Wizard's BIOS is fairly easily modified by a tool
called "CBROM"; after inserting an Etherboot image into it, removing the
hard drive and rebooting it Just Worked.

Files required are at http://cp.yi.org/cameron/wizard/bios/

Procedure:

- Get your wizard booting into DOS or the DOS-mode part of Win9x
- Download a copy of the bios using awdflash.exe (some command-line
  option is needed, can't remember which, awdflash /? should tell you)
- Copy the bios to a new name (e.g. ether.rom) so you have a copy of the
  original just in case.
- Use cbrom to insert the Etherboot rom into the bios, e.g.:
	cbrom215 ether.rom /pci eb52-rtl.rom
- Use awdflash with no command-line arguments to flash the new BIOS
  image (ether.rom)
- Power down the wizard and remove the HD and it will boot from LAN.
  (Maybe simply telling the bios that no drive is present will work too,
  though I haven't tried this.)

Possibly the above is obvious to some of you or you've done it before,
but I thought it may be of general interest.

Cheers,

Cameron.