Putting GRUB into ROM?

2001-11-04 Thread Andreas Ehliar
Since my latest idea about putting something into a bootrom didn't work out I'm thinking about using my empty socket on the ethernet-card to house GRUB instead. What do I need to change in GRUB in order to allow it to boot from a boot rom? Looking at the code from etherboot I think one would

Re: Putting GRUB into ROM?

2001-11-04 Thread Christoph Plattner
I think it is possible using the way as in the diskless loading (nbiloader.S). Stage1 is not needed, stage2 is copied from the ROM to the 0x8200 and is executed. But a really problem is the size. The stage2 has about 100KB, and it is quite a problem to have this space and to map in this space