ADLO + EPIA-M + No hard disk, just etherboot/tftp?

[David Ashley]

I'm working with the VIA EPIA-M motherboard.

I'm trying to bring up ADLO with linuxbios, and I've gotten this far using
tftp:
Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> ADLO

Previously I have had
Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> linux, all ok except no VGA

So I'm working on getting VGA up since although evidently people have done it
they're not sharing.

This is a diskless workstation so the idea is its root filesystem exists
only over the network, and linux will always be booted with etherboot/bootp.
However ADLO locks you into a hard drive boot.

SO:

Is it possible to merge the ADLO payload and my linux payload (made with
mkelfImage-2.5) so that everything will work? Maybe I'd modify ADLO to
just initialize itself then chain to the linux payload directly rather than
try booting a hard drive.

Any help appreciated. When/if successful I *will* share the procedure of
getting VGA working with epia-m. Please cc me on replies since I'm not
subscribed.

Thanks--
Dave