AVM Rebooting

roognation

As you may know, the AVMs boot much faster than the MAX Servers. Therefore, it is essential to get the AVMs to repeatedly reboot until they are able to boot off the network. I put this together with anonymous help from some great people; thanks.

1 Change AVM BIOS: 2nd boot device = USB-HDD

2 Get a USB key

3 Format a floppy in WinXP as bootable

4 Get the HP tool for formatting USB keys to be bootable; make sure to use version 2.0.6 (aka 2.00.006) found here (or try searching on the HP website for SP27213):
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html

5 Format the USB key as FAT and use the make DOS Boot Disk option; the image of course comes from your WinXP floppy above

6 Get the bootwarm.com file and put that on the key:
http://www.ctyme.com/download/share/reboot.zip

7 If you want to tell the end user what is going on, you can have the BAT file wait with DELAY.EXE (15 seconds shown below) found here as delay.zip, posted on 4Dec06:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030320150#post1030320150

8 Sample AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
@cls
@echo.
@echo.
@echo.
@echo.
@echo +++++++++++++++++++++++=+++++++++++++++++++++++
@echo + +
@echo + Please wait while this unit reboots +
@echo + until it finds a bootable network +
@echo + device (e.g. MAX Media Server) +
@echo + +
@echo +++++++++++++++++++++++=+++++++++++++++++++++++
@DELAY.EXE 15
@bootwarm.com

9 Put those three files on the USB key and away you go. The AVM will continually reboot until the Network boot is available from the MAX Server.

Hope this helps someone; I sure toiled enough with it.

Cheers,
roognation