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From: Marc S. <el...@bu...> - 2002-09-21 16:10:59
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:04:10AM +1000, Ken Yap wrote: > >> Those BIOS stubs with inline mode switching go all the way back to the > >> roots of Etherboot in BSD Netboot. Evidently it was the easy thing to do > >> then. But Etherboot has outgrown that straitjacket now, thanks to Eric. > > > >Is this new code working? Or, should I stick with a patched mknbi? > > Which new code? Etherboot 5.1.2rc? It's in the bug hunt stage. We > welcome testers. Depending on what you are trying to do, and your NIC, > you may be ecstatic or lose all your hair. I'm booting an AMD SC520 CPU with an 82559rc ethernet controller. There's a DOC on board which is the reason for all of this nonsense that I want to rewrite using a simple boot-floppy setup. Is this an interesting scenario to test? I'm game. I've already been rebuilding etherboot and mknbi, so there's little challenge there. BTW, I just tried mknbi-1.2-10rc1. It's all good. |
