Re[2]: [Etherboot-developers] possibility to boot under linux

[Anselm M. H. <ans...@ho...>]

Hello Ken,

Monday, December 16, 2002, 5:04:40 AM, you wrote:

>>Is it possible to boot using EtherBoot without restarting linux?
>>I mean,compile EtherBoot as an executable file and just run under linux...
>>It is more convinient to debug then...

KY> Debug what, Linux or Etherboot? If Linux, try User Mode Linux.  If
KY> Etherboot, get a second machine and use mknbi-rom.

I could recommend vmware. For those who don't know it: It's an X
application (also available for win2k/nt) that simulates a computer,
including that bios splash screen when turning on... It adds an
additional networking device to your linux host system, but ignore
that. Let the guest operating system use the transparent networking of
your standard ethernet device, and create a etherboot floppy image for
vmware. Runs nicely. I used to test my ebmenu with vmware.

This of course is NOT suitable for testing drivers, as inside vmware
everything looks like an AMD PC-Net card. But for debugging "the
rest", it should do the job. For replacing the rom after each test
compile, you would replace the virtual floppy. Or use the
etherboot-loaded-by-etherboot approach, which should be documented
somewhere on the eb homepage (or was it the ltsp.org page?)

Best regards,
 Anselm                            mailto:an...@ho...