cvs commit: ports/net/etherboot Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/net/etherboot/files patch-aa patch-ab patch-ac

[Doug Ambrisko]

Luigi Rizzo writes:
| warning -- etherboot 5.2.x has severe backward compatibility issues
| wrt the previous version (5.0.x)
| 
| In particular, with the new version we have lost the possibility
| of using the boot1a bootloader in front of the etherboot image.
| This is a very precious feature, because you can stick both the
| boot1a and the etherboot code in the unused chunk of the first
| track of the disk (sectors 2-63 or 2-32 in the case of flash cards),
| meaning that you can set up a diskless boot partition even if the
| disk is fully used.
| 
| With the new code i believe you need LILO, and i am not sure
| at all that you can do the same -- at the very least you cannot
| certainly do something as simple as
| 
|         cat boot1a.bin rtl8139.lzrom | dd of=/dev/ad0 oseek=1
| 
| to install the diskless partition.

I'll try to test it again but I think this should still work ... a 
similar variation worked for me before. 

So for me that hasn't been the case.

BTW the main motivation is the exising port doesn't build due to missing
tarball so I moved it to the latest release build (once I made it
work properly with FreeBSD).

Doug A.