Re: [Etherboot-developers] etherboot

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

Hello Peter,

> Dear etherboot-developers

>         I am a fan of Disk-less system on Linux. I download the 'etherboot 5.0.6' 

Do yourself a favor and download the latest 5.0.11 release from
http://www.etherboot.org/distribution.html

If you intend to do changes that are "experimental" or so, you should
do them to etherboot 5.1 (the development branch), as 5.0 is in
"stable, only bugfixes allowed" mode - it means there are no new
features expected for 5.0

> source codeform www.etherboot.org and try to do some modify. Would you mind 
> to tell 
> me some useful information about what I concern: I want to know where the 
> sources
> are 'load the boot-image and try to boot it on client side' , that's which 
> file 
> and subroutine?

That differs between 5.0 and 5.1, and then you should know that these
'load file & boot' make up most of the sense of etherboot! It is split
over several files, depending on which part. There is ae.g. a file
nfs.c for downloading via NFS.

Perhaps you can tell us what your plans are, so we can help you more
specifically.

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