Re: [Etherboot-developers] e1000 and etherboot menu

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

Hello Hans-Peter,

> [...]
> only supported by the current development version, which unfortunately
> has the menuing stuff removed. 

> If I cannot flash etherboot on the NIC, I normally use a pxe target to 
> load etherboot (dhcp filename), which in turn presents the menu and 
> loads the default kernel.

> What is the prefered way to mimic this behaviour in the development 
> series? 

You can use some newer mknbi to create an external menu program which does
exactly what you want. [man mknbi-menu] It seems to be with
mknbi-1.2.6 and newer (though I did not use it myself). RTfineM...

> Booting-from-floppy-is-really-uncool'ly y'rs

Yup!

> Pete

Best regards,
 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
 Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
 <an...@ho...>

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