BIOS FLASHROMS AND COMPACT FLASH BOOT
Deepak Kotian
dkotian3 at vsnl.net
Wed Apr 30 13:55:00 CEST 2003
I was reading the FAQ on etherboot, It says
insmod bios.o
dd if=natsemi.elf of=/dev/bios bs=64k
dd if=linuxbios.rom of=/dev/bios bs=64k seek=1
looks to be valid for TFTP , could someone kindly please
elaborate the etherboot procedure in my case.
Regards
Deepak
----- Original Message -----
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: BIOS FLASHROMS AND COMPACT FLASH BOOT
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
>
> > I have a system, which has 256/512K BIOS FLASH ROMS with 32MB Compact
> > flash IDE. And the kernel image is residing on Compact flash. I can
> > change the partioning as per the needs for LinuxBIOS to work. I just
> > want BOOT Linux and no other O.S for now.
>
> What we do here:
>
> burn linuxbios on flash with an etherboot payload
>
> burn the linux kernel onto the Compact Flash.
>
> ron
>
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