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From: <ke...@us...> - 2001-06-27 00:03:17
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>It doesn't look like the code supports passing parameters via a com file. >I'd like to override a DHCP parameter via a command option to the DHCP >server or change the identifier. Worst case is that I could build a >special version of Etherboot but I was hoping someone new more about >dos stuff then I do and maybe already done this. Com files are the neglected children in the Etherboot family because DOS sometimes hinders com files from working. If you don't really need to boot DOS first, you just want to launch Etherboot from a DOS partition and be able to dual boot DOS/Windows... I was chatting with Marty the other night and we thought that there should be a good chance LILO can be made to work on a DOS partition. LILO doesn't really care what filesystem your boot files are stored on. it just stores the block numbers of the boot files. Here's how one would proceed: Make a .lilo Etherboot image. Extract the LILO support files in a DOS partition, i.e. the stuff in /boot and /etc/lilo.conf. Put the Etherboot .lilo image in /boot. Edit /etc/lilo.conf with entries for DOS and Etherboot. Boot a Linux rescue disk with LILO, e.g. tomsbtrt (www.toms.net). Mount the DOS partition. Say it's mounted on /mnt/dos Run lilo -r /mnt/dos LILO should find /etc/lilo.con and install boot entries for DOS and Etherboot. |
