Hi! Just recently bought an IBM Netvista 8363. I got it to boot my LTSP setup via NFS..
It bothers me though that I can't get PXE or even boot a normal Linux kernel in this Thin client..
I notice that it has a socket chip with "ns" plus numbers in it..It looks like this can be replaced.. Did somebody already hacked the bios of this Thin client? Is there someplace where I can find information about trying out linuxbios from scratch ..
Hi,
this topic came up before, please check http://www.openbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2004-August/008654.html
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:32:09AM -0500, ralph bacolod wrote:
I notice that it has a socket chip with "ns" plus numbers in it..It looks like this can be replaced..
Looking at http://jeanchristophe.duber.free.fr/netvista_8363/netvista8363-firmware.jpg suggests that it's soldered on, so you cannot easily replace it.
Apparently there are two BIOSes on this thing? Not sure.
A bigger image: http://www.bluetrait.com/images/folders/ibm-thin-client-8363/source/IMG_0811...
Can you post the 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' output here?
HTH, Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann