[LinuxBIOS] Booting from a ethernet over ata device

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 6 15:44:09 CEST 2006


Sergio García Murillo wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have just discovered the project and I was wondering if it could support the ethernet over ata protocol so it could boot up from a net drive.
> AFAIK it would require a 2.6 kernel which I don't know if there are plans to support it soon. 

we've been using linux 2.6 to boot over the network for several years. 
Works fine!

thanks,

ron




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