Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.1.2rc7 released

[<ke...@us...>]

>| 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

I didn't want to support the directory building functionality of the
ancient Netboot mknbi-dos in my version because there perfectly good
ways of doing this separately, e.g. mtools, mount, which are more
flexible, e.g. work on floppy images of any size, unlike the Netboot
version.  The Unix philosophy is of tools working together, not one tool
trying to do it all.

>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).

Probably all of these need to be rebuilt either because of 5.1 exposing
the bug in mknbi and/or other differences as Etherboot evolved.

>Okay I got something to work.  I was confused the option mkelf-menu.
>I had to add vendorext_is_valid=1 under FreeBSD since we use that for
>swap path.  Doesn't look like there is any serial support and therefore
>no dual console.  I tried to load FreeBSD via the menu and it died.

Ok I've put in serial support in the CVS version, could you please test
it?