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Subject: Re: 3C5XX diskless boot w/BOOTWARE ROMs?
To: lyndon@orthanc.com (Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:43:02 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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In-Reply-To: <199602152249.OAA27116@multivac.orthanc.com> from "Lyndon Nerenberg VE7TCP" at Feb 15, 96 02:49:18 pm
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> 
> Has anyone managed to get a diskless boot happening with Bootware's
> boot ROMs? They load the boot image at a different address, and I've
> made what I think are the appropriate changes in the kernel image, etc.,
> but I'm ending up with a wedged machine. Anyone out there have some
> prior art they're willing to share before I dig into this further?

As far as I know the Bootware boot ROM was designed primarily for DOS booting.

Did you tried the existing network boot support in

/sys/i386/boot/netboot ?

There exists support for 3c509 (and possibly 3c579 but I did not tested
it). Adding changes for other members of Etherlink III family must
be easy.

-SB