[olug] OT: annoying bios!

Will Langford unfies at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 17:04:13 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, drag sidious <drag at bluddclot.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:00:01AM -0500, Will Langford wrote:
> > There's no solution to this, just a random ranting.  Might prove to be an
> > interesting read.
> >
>
> If you don't mind having a bit of flash or whatnot to support syslinux
> bootloader then there is probably a work around you can do to do a
> PXE-like booting situation.
>
> http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php
>
> You can use syslinux to bootstrap other booting methods. (I like to use


I've had zero luck getting etherboot to cooperate either (see original
post).  Also note that the newer GIT builds of etherboot all produce > 32k
files :(.

While the flexibility of syslinux in a PXE or non PXE environment is indeed
awesome (where's iso boot support in pxe? grr) ... we wouldn't really need
that.  Just a memdisk boot to our custom software.

-Will



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