William A. Arbaugh wrote:
I want something that can boot your selected OS without the need of loading from the disk.
So do Microsoft and Intel. This is why they've put together the NetPC spec, and why there is etherboot and netboot now available for Linux. You can burn/flash a ROM today that you can put in your ethernet card's ROM socket and do a net boot with out every touching your hard disk.
The only problem with netcard-based solutions is changing things can often be a pain in the ass. I'd like to be able to type:
boot tftp:132.177.247.23/mykernel root=whatever
from my BIOS prompt and have it work. :-)
Take a look at http://www.slug.au/etherboot.
Will do. :-)
-- Ben hawk@ttlc.net
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