etherboot

[Adam Agnew]

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)

- Adam Agnew

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Serafino Sorrenti wrote:

> Hello Richard
> i've tried to put the kernel on the compact flash but there are problems here:
>
> >     Currently the hack for accomplishing this is
> >
> >     dd if=elfimage of=/dev/hde bs=4096 seek=1
> >
>
> it seems to erase the partition table, do i have to skip some bytes at the
> beginning of the disk ?
>
> i've tried also with:
>
> dd if=elfimage of=/dev/hde1 bs=4096 seek=1
>
> but linuxbios does not find hd0,0 /kernel when it starts.
>
> i have a question: if i use dd do raw copy from a file to the disk, how can
> linuxbios use /kernel ? i don't think there is any reference to a file :|
>
>
>
> Tnx
> Serafino
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