Putting Etherboot into award flash-bios

[Simon Bridger <simon@rakon.co.nz>]

Somewhere I saw a page on putting etherboot into award flash-bios, but
haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me at it and the required
utilities?

thanks

Simon

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bob Edwards [SMTP:Robert.Edwards@anu.edu.au]
> Sent:	Friday, 28 April 2000 11:52
> To:	netboot@baghira.han.de
> Subject:	Re: Etherboot/BSD Netboot root_path tag handling
> 
> 
> Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> > 
> > Currently the root_path vendor tag (id 17) is basically ignored using
> > mknbi-linux.  The assembler code dealing with the root filesystem path
> > only looks at the tag if no boot file name is known - a case that will
> > never happen at least with Etherboot.  So generally you'll end up with
> the
> > dirname of the boot file.
> > 
> > The Linux Terminal Server Project already ran into this but worked
> around
> > by using the -d switch to set the root directory name inside the nbi
> image.
> > However this should be just a temporary hack in my opinion.
> > 
> > Any votes against a small patch to the first.S file that reverses the
> order
> > of things - first the DHCP/BOOTP tag, then the boot file dirname?
> > 
> 
> A very democratic process! As with any democracy, the folk being asked to
> make the decision are seldom able to think through the issues and need to
> have the thinking done for them. In this case, to save me some time, can
> you
> please spell out the implications (positive and negative) of swapping the
> order of parsing these tags? Namely, what is going to break in existing
> setups?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bob Edwards.
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