Linuxbios + Etherboot + tagged Kernel Image

Steve Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Fri Apr 25 22:57:01 CEST 2003


>>cat vmlinux.gz > /dev/hda1
>>
>>That puts it where etherboot can get it.
> 
> 
> Note.  Etherboot is not limited to only one hard disk so it may make
> sense to put it on a secondary disk.
> 
> Eric

I don't see how this works, with an 8kbytes limit how etherboot could 
find it in hda1. Typical disks are 63 sectors, so the initial skip to 
partition 1 is 63 x 512 ~= 32K, or much larger than 8K.

-Steve





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