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From: Jim M. <ja...@mc...> - 2001-07-08 22:18:16
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Marty, Great description of how all this stuff works. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through it. I have 2 questions for you: 1) Do you have an estimate of how the 'Double' boot affects the boot time? I'm guessing only a second or two. 2) Do you think it would be possible to do a similar thing using RPL instead of PXE ? I haven't a clue where to start, but there sure are alot of motherboards out there with RPL embedded, and it would be cool to do the 'RPL->Etherboot->Linux' trick. Thanks, Jim McQuillan ja...@Lt... Marty Connor wrote: > > Write a driver or play with the PXE stuff... Write a driver or play with > the PXE stuff... > > I was deciding what to do this weekend when in came a message about > someone trying to use the Etherboot/PXE feature, so I decided I'd look at > that. > > What follows is a description of that process. > > Executive Summary: > > I got it to work. Two PXE cards (a 3COM and an Intel) with PXE built in > were able to boot by loading Etherboot and the letting Etherboot do the > kernel load. Sweet. > SNIPPED |
