Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/etherboot Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/net/etherboot/files patch-aa patch-ab patch-ac Message-ID: <200406302234.i5UMYLoi066307@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20040630151808.A81112@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo writes: | warning -- etherboot 5.2.x has severe backward compatibility issues | wrt the previous version (5.0.x) | | In particular, with the new version we have lost the possibility | of using the boot1a bootloader in front of the etherboot image. | This is a very precious feature, because you can stick both the | boot1a and the etherboot code in the unused chunk of the first | track of the disk (sectors 2-63 or 2-32 in the case of flash cards), | meaning that you can set up a diskless boot partition even if the | disk is fully used. | | With the new code i believe you need LILO, and i am not sure | at all that you can do the same -- at the very least you cannot | certainly do something as simple as | | cat boot1a.bin rtl8139.lzrom | dd of=/dev/ad0 oseek=1 | | to install the diskless partition. I'll try to test it again but I think this should still work ... a similar variation worked for me before. So for me that hasn't been the case. BTW the main motivation is the exising port doesn't build due to missing tarball so I moved it to the latest release build (once I made it work properly with FreeBSD). Doug A.
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