Re: [Etherboot-developers] Rom-o-matic feature request

[Marty C. <ma...@et...>]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Paolo Salvan wrote:
> The new etherboot should allow to build auto-detecting floppy
> ("etherboot", "etherboot-pci"); can this feature be usable also from 
> the
> rom-o-matic web site?

I'm sure we can do something. Since it's not in the Roms file, we'd 
probably have to hack a special case for it. I'll take a look at it 
next chance I get. The suggestion has also been made that we support 
compound-Rom building. (that is images with more than one target NIC in 
them). It's an interesting idea, and might work from floppy and lilo, 
there may be BIOS issues, where the BIOS needs the PCI IDs of the image 
on the ROM to match. There is a possible way to deal with this in the 
BSS BIOS spec, but then some BIOSes might not support it.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, and I'll see what my staff thinks 
of it.

Marty

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