Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:57:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How difficult is it to make a netbootable installation? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905151656340.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <14141.38122.393804.533653@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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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
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