Re: [Etherboot-developers] Multiple drivers

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Any way to get eb 5.07 to try multiple drivers?  I have a lab of crap
> >computers, and it would be great to make a boot disk that had 5 or 6
> >etherboot nic drivers that it could try to load.
> Make a LILO floppy that will allow you to choose from a selection of
> drivers.
> Discussion redirected to users list where it belongs.

It is also possible with EB 5.0.7 to have multiple drivers in a single
image.  For example:

  make bin32/rtl8139--prism2_pci.lzrom

will give you a ROM image that has rtl8139 and prism2_pci drivers, with
the PCI IDs of an RTL8139 card.

Be warned that you are likely to run out of memory with >2 drivers.
Symptoms will be seemingly random reboots.  Eric's memory allocation code
in the 5.1.x branch fixes this problem, AFAIK.

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk