On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:09:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Also, is there be some nifty way to modify Etherboot so that the parts of
> > Linux requiring BIOS services are left out completely that I could try, and
> > maybe not have to implement any yucky services at all? If so, how?
>
> Check out my mkelfImage code. It does what you want. Just build
> Etherboot with Multiboot support. Nothing in linux proper needs BIOS
> services, it just has a stub that is tacked on that queries the BIOS.
Yeah, that's what I've figured as well. But I didn't think there was any
way to skip the stub. I've been using NBI files before but mainly because
mknbi was readily available and there wasn't any mention of pros/cons for
the alternatives.
Where do I get my hands on mkelfImage?
> With linuxBIOS you should be able to trim out a lot more stuff.
That's what I figure too.
Thanks! :)
//Peter
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