ide emulation based on network block device for arbitrary OSes?

[Adam Megacz]

I've heard that you can use LinuxBIOS to bootload other operating
systems (like Windows, etc).  Is it possible for LinuxBIOS to boot the
device and install a block of code in memory that handles BIOS disk
requests using some sort of network block device protocol?

Failing this, does anybody know of a cheap hardware device that would
do the same thing?

Thanks.

  - a

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[ron minnich]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Adam Megacz wrote:
> I've heard that you can use LinuxBIOS to bootload other operating
> systems (like Windows, etc).  Is it possible for LinuxBIOS to boot the
> device and install a block of code in memory that handles BIOS disk
> requests using some sort of network block device protocol?

ouch. What is the motivation?

thanks

ron