Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:35:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Ioannidis <ji@research.att.com> Cc: imp@village.org, mike@smith.net.au, config@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <199909031935.MAA00799@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:36:12 EDT." <199909031936.PAA20985@arran.research.att.com>
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> Didn't there use to be a loader that one could burn on eprom, stick the > eprom in an ethernet card, and boot? I remember playing with it a few > years ago, but it was probably back in the 2.1.5 days. These days you go out and buy a PXE-compliant boot ROM for your card, or update your motherboard BIOS if you have onboard networking hardware. The i386 loader will be PXE 2.0 compliant when we're done with it; at the moment I'm only working on the Alpha, but adding PXE support will be fairly straightforward. You can buy third-party PXE-compliant bootroms for almost every card ever manufactured. InCom (www.incom.de) support several hundred at least, and they're only one vendor. You can read more about PXE at Intel's developer site (developer.intel.com); I am actively looking for a contributor to help with the PXE code. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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