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From: Marty C. <md...@th...> - 2001-07-09 01:22:57
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On 7/8/2001 6:18 PM Jim McQuillan ja...@mc... wrote: >1) Do you have an estimate of how the 'Double' boot affects the > boot time? I'm guessing only a second or two. PXE is an umm, "interesting" (notice how I avoided saying "horribly broken" :-) protocol. It seems to do three DHCP probes, and "picks" the one it likes best. So it seems to take about 6 seconds to figure out what to do. Etherboot takes no seconds (after the timeout). So I guess, depending on the card, you'd be adding a few seconds. The PXE spec is available at Intel. I think you can even read it without signing an NDA. But the developer's kit requires some sort of the agreement with Intel. I'm not into NDA's, in general. >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. Check out: http://gimel.esc.cam.ac.uk/james/rpld/index.html It looks ugly, but apparently they got something to work. With some work, one could probably fool RPL cards into loading Etherboot. Who wants a chance at fame and glory? :-) Marty --- Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly. Name: Marty Connor US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA Voice: (617) 491-6935, Fax: (617) 491-7046 Email: md...@th... Web: http://www.thinguin.org/ |
