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

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

On 13 May 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Michael Gentili <mge...@so...> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 May 2003, Timothy Legge wrote:
> > 
> > > > What were the issues (so I don't repeat any mistakes)?
> > > 
> > > I only know my issues.  Ken pulled out boot1a.s so I assume that he had more
> > issues than just mine.
> 
> boot1a.S could not handler large etherboot images so:
> etherboot.lzdsk would not work because it was not loaded
> properly and the code was not easily repairable, or even traceable.

Yes, we've encountered this problem too.  It looks like my boss may 
give me some time to figure out something from scratch that does 
support larger etherboot images as we have a need for multiple 
drivers in one image.

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> Um..  That suffix does not sound correct for a public mailing list.

Oops, you're right; my apologies.  I'm not supposed to attach it to 
Public/Open Source discussions as it's not really in the spirit of 
things :)