CTRL-B required to activate NICs PXE Image?

[hegi]

Hi there,

the good news first: I successfully flashed my first Intel Gigabit NIC with iPXE. - Good !

However, it was a bit of a drag. - Especially finding a download for IBAUtil, since the new Proboot requires tedious manual converting to .flb for flashing. - This took me a couple of hours to figure and find .

To anyone searching for IBAutil: You may extract a working version from this .iso: http://https://delivery04.dhe.ibm.com/sa..._32-64.iso. - Loop-Mount it or burn it on CD and then you find IBAUtil in the APPS/BOOTAGNT Directory. After getting IBAUtil, I could proceed according to http://http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/intel to flash the .rom image. This worked all straight forward .

Now I have one problem: Upon boot I get the iPXE start message (... press CTRL-B to configure). But I have to press CTRL-B to activate iPXE on every single boot. - Depending on the image I then issue the manual commands or use an embedded script. If I use "config" there appears nothing to configure automatic invocation - I seemingly need CTRL-B to activate iPXE.

What I do not know: Is the acitvation of iPXE-boot expected to come from the bios, or are there specific options to configure? If bios interaction is required, I suppose I'm doomed .

Background: The NIC is in a Neoware CA22 ThinClient with VIA chipset and evything "on board". There is no bios-option for network-boot except via the internal 100MBit NIC. But I have disabled the onboard NIC and its boot-rom in the bios, since I want to use the quicker Gigabit NIC. - That's the sole reason for this exercise.

Any hints are warmly welcome.

Thanks a lot!

Hegi.