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
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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.
>
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