>> That would be nice. Another useful project might be to adapt loadlin to >> handle Etherboot images, then people could boot from DOS. > >Shouldn't it be possible to write a loader/wrapper which loads the bootrom >image from the cmdline? from config.sys? That would also solve the topic >"booting off DOC and CompactFlash devices". Yes, that's what loadlin is. It might be possible to prepend an Etherboot ROM image with a floppy boot segment and a setup segment so that it looks like a Linux kernel image so that an unmodified loadlin will accept it. The main thing loadlin does that is critical is that it turns off things like XMS drivers which interfere with Etherboot. Etherboot is expecting a cold booted machine, not one where access to certain memory areas have side effects. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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