>methods are setting up a RIS server (ugly) or somehow try to get the RIS
>boot disk tagged for etherboot (ugly, especially considering the likely
>lack of support for my NIC, the sis900). =20
Have you looked? There is a sis900 driver.
>Is this too far outside to purview of the etherboot project to be done?=20
>Etherboot would then have to maintain some process in memory to be able
>to communicate with the iscsi server while the machine was running.
Etherboot gets displaced by whatever it's loading so it cannot "maintain
some process in memory".
I don't know how feasible it is to boot off iscsi. It may require a more
complex network stack, i.e. TCP, than Etherboot has.
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