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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