etherboot + pxeboot ?

[Eric Anderson]

On 03/07/07 18:19, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Doug Ambrisko wrote:
>> It might be interesting to see how Etherboot worked a long time ago
>> with some patches to it and pxeboot to make it work.  This was before
>> PXE support was added to Etherboot.  Also things could have changed
>> in Etherboot since the last time I tried to run pxeboot with it.
>>   
> I played with this as recently as December. The BTX halted problem you 
> are seeing is the same 'ol same 'ol 'BTX wants to play in vm86 mode, but 
> BIOS or expansion ROM wants to play in real mode' problem.
> 
> Etherboot's PXE implementation tries to enter protected mode. At least 
> with Etherboot, one can actually read the source and see this for onesself.
> 
> Regards,
> BMS


So excuse my ignorance on this, but is this something that is fixable, 
or is pxeboot just never going to work right?

Eric