From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 16 12:03:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28851 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28846 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA05235; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:56:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602161956.MAA05235@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 3C5XX diskless boot w/BOOTWARE ROMs? To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:56:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: lyndon@orthanc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602160543.KAA25834@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Feb 16, 96 10:43:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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.