[Etherboot-developers] booting ide flash from latest etherboot (CVS)

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Mon Oct 28 14:26:01 CET 2002


Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 24 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > make ide_disk.elf
> > Or in the normal case of wanting the nic driver as well.
> > make eepro100--ide_disk.nrv2belf (nrv2b is the upx compression algorithm)
> 
> no target like that exists in the latest cvs for the 5.1 tree.

Try it.  It is there.

> Also, it seems to me that if I set up BOOT_xyz to be BOOT_DISK, that stuff
> should get turned on, so that the Principle of Least Surprise is honored.

It is honoured you don't have the IDE driver compiled in.

Eric



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