etherboot

[Richard Smith]

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