New netboot version

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

today I've uploaded a new netboot version. You can get it using:

	http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/files/netboot-0.9.0e.tar.gz

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time recently to include all the
changes I was planning. Anyway, I've fixed a couple of bugs reported
to me. Thanks to all who reported bugs! I haven't answered all bug
reports yet, as I'm still investigating some problems. However, here
are the latest bug fixes in version 0.9.0e:

- Heavily updated the documentation. Unless I forgot something (and I
  very likely forgot something) it's now complete for the final 0.9
  release.
- Fixed a bug in the floppy loader which prevented a bootrom image to
  get loaded off a hard disk partition (yes, that hasn't been mentioned
  in the documentation yet: you can also put a image.flo file onto a
  hard disk partition in addition to a floppy).
- makerom has been changed to use 64kB by default if the minsize/maxsize
  parameters haven't been set. This should hopefully prevent some of the
  network driver problems recently mentioned in this mailing list.
- Reworked the interrupt handler. However, shared PCI interrupts are
  still a problem. Therefore, if you can't get your network card to run
  with netboot make sure that it's not using an interrupt which is shared
  with some other card.
- Corrected some bugs with reading the netboot configuration file.
- Corrected mknbi-linux so that it now works with Linux kernel version 2.2.x.
  However please note that there are still some serious bugs in the kernel
  which prevent it to work with netboot properly.

There are also some other minor bug fixes. Again, thanks a lot for all
your bug reports. Please keep them coming in, even though I'm usually
not able to answer them immediately.

gero.

-- 
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possible exception of the sword.		- Benjamin Dana
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