Re: net booting using standard manufacturers bootroms

[Omar Walid Llorente <omar@dit.upm.es>]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, John Finlay wrote:

> Where should I look for info on net booting linux using the bootroms
> available from the NIC card manufacturers? I have a 3com MBA bootrom for
> my 3c905B-TX but no info on how to boot linux using it.
>

 Usually the manufacturer provides some info for netbooting (at least for
windows) but not for linux. I've trying with the prom that comes with the
intel EtherExpress PRO 100+ but it only can load an image < 32KB what
makes a difficult job running linux... If you send me an image of the
bootrom i could try to investigate it with a 3c905B.
 
> There seem to be projects for netbooting that require burning a PROM but
> I'd prefer not to do that.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
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