Boot Roms

[lovitz]

I was reading a website that had operating systems on a boot chip that is placed on a NIC.


Has anyone heard of this before? Anyone tried it out?

[glc]

Yep - they were commonly used for diskless workstations back in the DOS days. Haven't seen any nics for a while that have the boot rom socket.

[edfair]

They didn't have the operating system. Rather a bootstrap program to download the operating system. Somewhat like the bootstrap program that loads the operating system from the hard drive.