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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:18:58 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        ia64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Intel EFI Application Toolkit
Message-ID:  <20010927121858.A20354@gauss.cup.hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109271122410.51362-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
References:  <20010926170410.A45935@gauss.cup.hp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109271122410.51362-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:26:34AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> The latest version of the loader includes network support. If you have
> some fairly recent firmware, you can select the network device from the
> boot menu and it will dhcp and tftp a copy of loader.efi. The loader can
> then use NFS to fetch the kernel. Nice.

My firmware is as old as my processor stepping (read: ancient).

I have excellent support from the sysadmin. He's putting in another 1GB
and looks if the machine can be upgraded. Unfortunately he's going
away, which means that I have to go through the official channels again
which basicly means I'm hosed. I should know in a couple of hours what
is possible and what isn't.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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