RE: [Etherboot-developers] No simple loading from IDE...

[Michael G. <mge...@so...>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Timothy Legge wrote:

> > If I were to produce a hard drive boot prefix without the size
> limitations
> > of boot1a.s, would there be any interest in having another target for
> hard
> > drive bootable etherboot images (ie. ethdrv.zhd or something)?
> 
> Boot1a.s was tossed because of multiple problems that were encountered.
> At the time, we knew there would be issues with HDs.

What were the issues (so I don't repeat any mistakes)?

> I would say that if you could find a method of booting from the HD
> without the problems encountered with boot1a.s it would be accepted.

OK.  I'll see what I can do.

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