From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 22:34:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1468116A4CE; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-43.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B455A43D46; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:34:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: from server2.ambrisko.com (HELO www.ambrisko.com) (192.168.1.2) by mail.ambrisko.com with ESMTP; 30 Jun 2004 15:34:22 -0700 Received: from ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.ambrisko.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5UMYLSU066308; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i5UMYLoi066307; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200406302234.i5UMYLoi066307@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20040630151808.A81112@xorpc.icir.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:34:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: Doug Ambrisko cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.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 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:34:34 -0000 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.