[LinuxBIOS] (fwd) Re: USB bootloader

Indrek Kruusa indrek.kruusa at artecdesign.ee
Thu Sep 14 11:10:35 CEST 2006


Al Boldi wrote:
> yhlu wrote:
>   
>> 1. with LinuxBIOS, It works with one Tyan Intel based MB (UHCI) and
>> some other Opteron base MBs.
>>     
>
> Great!  So maybe the delayed USB boot is hw related, but why?
>
>   
>> 2. maybe Etherboot heap used by FILO USB packet buffer overwirte the
>> APM info in RAM.
>>     
>
> This happens even with FILO IDE.
>
> Etherboot PXE works OK.
>   

How did you managed to compile etherboot for LinuxBIOS with PXE?

I have tried several confs without success and rom-o-matic.net fails too.


thanks,
Indrek





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