Re: [Etherboot-developers] NBP Help

[Rajesh S. P. <raj...@ta...>]

Hi,
      This means that boot images are different for PXE and Etherboot.
Can anybody tell me how the PXE specific boot image(NBP) interacts with PXE
stack How it gets loaded. Basically the interaction between PXE and NBP, till
NBP loads the operating system or it retuens control back.
      I got idea of how etherboot image works, its interaction and other
details. But if would be very nice, if I get similar
/information/documents/links for PXE boot mage.

Looking forward to receive replies.
Thanks in advance.
regards,
Rajesh

Eric W. Biederman" wrote:

> "Rajesh Shantaram Patharkar" <raj...@ta...> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >    I have gone through some part of this Etherboot docs. For me it seems
> > that(Looking at documents) etherboot and PXE are same.
> >    Is it true? if not what are the difference between Etherboot and PXE.
>
> Mostly etherboot implements  standard DHCP and TFTP and handles any
> image size.  In particular I can load a whole image in one pass.
> Resulting in subsecond boot times.
>
> PXE has some embrace and extend going on, above standard DHCP && TFTP,
> as well as complicated a set of API for the NBP.  etherboot doesn't
> limit the initial image.
>
> Extending etherboot to be a PXE a server would be o.k. as long as it
> didn't mess up the code.
>
> That is the other big difference etherboot as an open source project
> and be extended and fixed, and is generally not buggy.
>
> Eric