etherboot + pxeboot ?

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 10 05:59:44 UTC 2007


On 03/08/07 02:58, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>> On 03/07/07 18:19, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> So excuse my ignorance on this, but is this something that is fixable, 
>> or is pxeboot just never going to work right?
> It's fixable if someone sits down and takes the time to rewrite BTX to 
> be able to trampoline into real mode when calling certain BIOS routines. 
> I tried to sit down and do this last October when I had some free time 
> to work on it, but got nowhere fast.
> 
> Regards,
> BMS


Well, considering I have no clue what all that means, I guess I'm not 
much help in that case.  :)

Maybe someone out there will pick it up.  Should it be added to the 
projects page?


Eric



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