etherboot
Richard Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
Thu May 15 11:23:01 CEST 2003
Adam Agnew wrote:
> eep. Hrmm.. It looks like you're following the directions for one
> etherboot, but using a different etherboot. If you're using etherboot
> 5.0.6 with my polled io / file system patch, then you want to:
>
> 1) Make sure that compact flash adapter is the primary master (hda not hde
> as long as you're going to use (hd0,0) ).
>
> 2) Just make a regular partition table, make sure the first primary
> partition is ext2 or ext3, and then save that kernel image as /kernel .
>
> 3) Only follow the directions for writted a kernel to the compact flash
> raw if you're going to use the development branch of etherboot (5.1.8
> presently)
Ah my bad. Looks like my howto is in error then. I only have the
building of etherboot seperated out. I didn't realise the boot method
was different as well.
Adam can you do a short writeup on building etherboot 5.0.x apply your
patches and then the process above? I'll make 2 different sections in
my FAQ/HOWTO) one for each etherboot version.
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Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com
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