lilo-etherboot patch available on www.thinguin.org

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

There is patch to Etherboot 4.6.10 available on http://www.thinguin.org/ 
which enables Etherboot to generate lilo-loadable ROM images.  This patch 
is also available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/etherboot/ as an 
official Etherboot patch, for those who prefer to use the patch manager 
on Sourceforge. In this message I refer to the patch on the thinguin site 
for simplicity.

Using this patch means one can do:

    $ cd etherboot-4.6.10/src
    $ make bin32/tulip.lzlilo
    
in Etherboot, to generate a ROM image file that lilo will boot. (we are 
using
"tulip" in this example, but use whatever ROM type you wish)

You would then copy the file to /boot (or wherever you keep your kernel 
images) with something like:

    $ cp bin32/tulip.lzlilo /boot

and edit /etc/lilo.conf to add a new image entry:

   image=/boot/tulip.lzlilo
        label=etherboot

Then run /sbin/lilo to activate your changes:

    $ /sbin/lilo

and reboot.

At the lilo prompt, just hit the TAB key and type

    etherboot

and off you go.

Etherboot should load, and perform normally.

There is a more complete README file on the thinguin site and in the 
tarball.

I'd like to thank Gary Byers (gb@thinguin.org) for writing the assembler 
code for liloprefix.S, and Gerd Knorr (kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de) for the 
"masq" package which gave us inspiration.

I'd be grateful if people would test this enhancement to Etherboot, and 
let us know how it works.

Regards,

Marty

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   Name: Martin D. Connor
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