Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:52:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the load address of the kernel? Message-ID: <199811232352.PAA38750@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199811232029.VAA08250@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> from Oliver Fromme at "Nov 23, 98 09:29:03 pm"
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Oliver Fromme writes: | Robert Nordier wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: | > We do need a more capable netboot replacement, and if Lanworks is | > as responsive as they appear to be, then supporting their product | > may be an easy route to satisfying this requirement. | | They are. They support only DOS and Windows "officially", but | they have a UNIX person which answers to technical questions | quite fast. They also send free (!) evaluation packages upon | request. I ordered one, and it arrived two days later by UPS | express (from Canada to Germany). | | BTW, Linux supports the Lanworks boot ROMs. | | It would be nice to have FreeBSD support for those ROMs, too, | in one way or another. Even if we had a working netboot code, | many people aren't able to make their own EPROMs. Especially | those QPGA/FPGA (?) Flash memories required for many PCI cards | (like the EtherExpress Pro/100) aren't easy to make on your | own. Actually it is pretty easy to do it for the Intel cards since they is a utility from IBM that programs the flash boot rom on Intel cards. Various methods are at: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/ or archived in the netboot mailing list. Also it may be worth looking at: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/nilo/ I've hacked Etherboot to load FreeBSD/aout again and now to load FreeBSD/elf. I like the menu-options so I can load various things from the client. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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