etherboot-developers

[Etherboot-developers] Universal auto-probing driver

[Alke <al...@io...>]

Hi all!

I think it could be VERY useful an universal, auto-probing driver, so we
can have a single floppy for booting every pc...
This universal driver could contain all existing drivers, or (if the
size whould be a problem) only the most widespread (or there could be
both version: one large universal driver and one smaller with only the
most widespread...).

Bye!

Paolo

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Universal auto-probing driver

[Anselm M. H. <ans...@gm...>]

> Hi all!
> 
> I think it could be VERY useful an universal, auto-probing driver, so we
> can have a single floppy for booting every pc...
> This universal driver could contain all existing drivers, or (if the
> size whould be a problem) only the most widespread (or there could be
> both version: one large universal driver and one smaller with only the
> most widespread...).
> 

AFAIK, never tried myself, you can generate such an image with
etherboot-5.1. That (development) version is not well (hardly at all) documented, but I
was told that
make etherboot.zdsk (or so)
outputs a multipurpose bootdisk image.
Ken will know :-)

However, the idea has been there for some time. As you say it, I think I'll
give it a run this afternoon.

Greetings,

Anselm M. Hoffmeister <ans...@ho...>

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