From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 15 8:57:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE73815271 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 08:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA41824; Sat, 15 May 1999 16:57:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:57:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How difficult is it to make a netbootable installation? In-Reply-To: <14141.38122.393804.533653@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 15 May 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > You actually need to load the netboot bootloader via tftp (its a coff > format file, the SRM console doesn't grok elf), Its even simpler than that. Its a simple binary which the SRM console just loads into memory at the right place and jumps to the start. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message