Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Etherboot Broadcom driver

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<rant> Have discussions on the mailing list please </rant>

Jin Mazumdar <maz...@co...> writes:

> Eric,
> 
> Here is what I have so far.
> 
> I used the production 5.0.8 source to compile a floppy for linux and was able to
> 
> boot linux off it successfully.
> 
> I was able to use the same to compile a floppy for FreeBSD and was able to load
> the kernel but was unable to boot the FreeBSD kernel.  It stopped after printing
> 
> done after the set of dots it prints while loading the kernel.  I need to look
> into this to see what I am missing.
> 
> I was able to compile a floppy for booting linux with the etherboot development
> version 5.1.6 but was unable to load etherboot from the floppy.  The message I
> get is 00000 Err.  Things seem to have changed from the production release.  I
> built a floppy by catting the bin/boot1a.bin and the bin/tulip.img files.  I am
> using a AN983 ethernet card.  Is this this the correct process?

Not quite:

make bin/tulip.fd0 
or
make bin/tulip.dsk

To cat it together manually you need to include whatever $(START16) expands
to in the makefile.
 
> Did not see the tg3 driver.  Please let me know where it is.

In CVS and I believe in 5.1.8.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Jin