Re: Booting a COM file off a compact flash disk

[Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>]

Any news on this? At this time I boot Linux w/ loadlin but I would prefer
to have the kernel on the server only, as well as the NFS values in
dhcpd.conf. 

Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de> wrote:

> I'd like to ether/netboot a small embedded board off an IDE compact flash
> disk without having to put a kernel on the CFdisk (and hence, use loadlin).
> Reason to use DOS: switch the graphics hardware to drive a PAL TV before
> the kernel boots. Markus sent me some hints how to re-enable the making of
> COM files in the Makefile but I seem to be too silly to get it done. Does
> anyone have an archive of old Makefiles which still allowed to compile a
> COM file? Or concrete hints? 4.4.2 does not appear to contain anything like
> this. 

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