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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> 
> 3) Network Booting.
>    There is not much chance to change bootroms once they are flashed
>    so they like LinuxBIOS need a general purpose interface, so that can
>    handle whatever they need to boot.
> 


On this particular subject, I should point out that there is a standard 
for network bootroms on i386 platforms -- PXE.  Most PXE implementations 
out there suck rocks, but that's orthogonal -- they're still a lot 
easier to use than coming up with your own (and they will boot, ahem, 
other operating systems as well.)

Now, PXE is pretty limited usually boots a second-stage bootloader

That being said, it would be great to get an Open Source PXE 
implementation and driver collection.  I was hoping NILO 
(http://www.nilo.org/) would be it, but it seems to not be going 
anywhere.  I was for a while considering trying to turn Etherboot into a 
PXE kit.

	-hpa

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