Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:56:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: lyndon@orthanc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C5XX diskless boot w/BOOTWARE ROMs? Message-ID: <199602161956.MAA05235@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602160543.KAA25834@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Feb 16, 96 10:43:02 am
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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. Use their boot code to boot a DOS that runs the BSD NETBOOT.EXE in its AUTOEXEC.BAT. Problem solved. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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