Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Steven James wrote:
>
> > I have added rarp, tftp and the sis900 driver from Etherboot into
> > LinuxBIOS as a useful fallback. The total size is < 64K and works well
> > out of the regular flash parts.
>
> Note what a good thing this is. The most useful fallback (at least to my
> way of thinking) is a netboot. You can resolved that from a management
> node, you don't have to go find the machine. You don't have to worry about
> what the root file system disk is, what partition, and what fs type.
> Netboot is just about the best thing to do when everything is broken.
I have contacted the etherboot developers, to see if they are
interested in working with linuxBIOS and I received an enthusiastic
response.
They would love to help us, and I suspect with a little work we can
reuse etherboot whole.
With tiara we know it is possible. Now we just need to figure out how
to make it work well. :-)
Eric
