I was curious about that myself. Okay, so it's kind of like the way LILO
boots the kernel, right? It does the hardware initialization and triggers
the MBR to get everything running, and then a command can be executed
remotely in a standard shell prompt to update the BIOS. Is that about
right?
Marc J. Miller
Open Source Relations Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:58 AM
To: Caleb Crome
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Subject: Re: Question about linux bios
"Caleb Crome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > To divert both the keyboard and text based video to the serial port
for
> > > remote management.
> >
> > we already do that. But, remote management should be done over ethernet,
> > which we also do.
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but how is remote management done over ethernet. Is
> the IP burned into the flash?
The flash doesn't have to worry about remote management. It just
needs to provide the hooks and then you can boot something real
that knows how to talk to the rom.
Eric
