Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.1.2rc7 released

[Doug A. <amb...@am...>]

Ken Yap writes:
| >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.

I'll dig through that and see what the issue is.
 
| >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?

I need to pull the CVS stuff.  I should be able to play with that today
since I think the current issues at work have easied off so I have some
time to play with it.

Thanks,

Doug A.