Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.1.2rc7 released

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Doug Ambrisko <amb...@am...> writes:

> Ken Yap writes:
> | >I also haven't tried the external menu.  I used the internal menu a lot
> | >and can't get the external menu to work or any older netboot images
> | >like nbgrub or netboot versions of tagged DOS images.
> | 
> | Old images will not work. You *have to* rebuild all your images with
> | mknbi 1.2-10 or later.
> 
> That's a shame since I liked runing mknbi-dos on a directory and it
> making an image.  Also for some reason the floppy image I use
> doesn't work with the Etherboot version but worked with the Netboot
> image.  Also I would use Etherboot to load nbgrub to netboot
> OpenBSD/NetBSD/Linux (and for Linux I could just boot the Linux
> kernel directly without doing a mknbi on it).

This is not a case of etherboot 5.1 changing things and deliberately
breaking old images.  This is a case of the etherboot 5.1 changes
exposing bugs in older version of mknbi.

So old images will work if they do not make invalid assumptions,
about where things live.  One of the major enhancesments of 5.1 
is that it does not need to live below 1MB anymore.  

If you want to help map out the breakage, feel free.  Changes to
etherboot to fix things are definitely appreciated.

Eric