[Wizard] recovering corrupt Wizard BIOS

[Craig Ringer]

Hi folks

I'm yet to test this, but for those interested you should be able to 
recover a corrupt Wizard BIOS using the procedures detailed in this article:

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/howto/BIOS-Recovery.pdf

Why did I go and find this? Well, it turns out that modifying the BIOS 
from an etherbooted DOS image is /not/ the same as modifying it from a 
native DOS floppy :-( . Well, that or something else went wrong - either 
way, one of my Wizards doesn't POST or init video anymore.

Should be easy to fix - grab the BIOS off my other Wizard, or that of 
one of my housemates and use a bootable DOS floppy to restore the BIOS. 
It'll have to wait 'till I can get a compatable floppy cable, though.

I'm planning on posting a BIOS recovery disk image and an etherboot BIOS 
mod disk image (assuming I get that going on mine) at 
http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/wizard/, username 'wizard' with 
password 'bios' (so I'm not distributing it to the world, only people 
who have them already). I'll let you know when they're up there - It'll 
have to wait 'till I have a floppy drive cable adapter.

BTW, did anybody end up asking when Netway were getting in the various 
cables and such for these? I'm planning on picking up some audio headers 
for these boxes, plus a couple of floppy adapters, a 2 1/2" to 3 1/2" 
ATA cable and a 3 1/2" to 2 1/2" ATA cable. I'll be seriously 
considering at least one serial irDA port, too.

Craig Ringer