Hello, Maciek Uhlig <muhlig@us.edu.pl> wrote: > > 2. More importantly: how can I make it so that the client can choose > > at boot time what it will boot: Dos/novell/win95 or Linux/Xwindow ? > > So it really must be able to boot either of them. > > Read http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot Better, when using netboot, read the mknbi-mgl man page and write your own menu to select which operating system to boot at what time. > Then take into account they used a commercial bootprom. Their software is > excellent; I'm using it at my university. It would be very, very helpful if > Gero could release a kind of netboot API in order to use netboot with the Swiss > project instead of commercial bootprom. It would rather be helpful if the Swiss would change their software to netboot ;-)) > As far as I can see, what would be needed is: > > - detection of netboot's presence implemented in netboot since version 0.7 > - access to BOOTP reply area implemented in netboot since the first version > - open/read/close TFTP not implemented yet - and never will be. This functionality will be ported into the MGL runtime environment in the future, together with a full TCP/IP stack - hopefully, when I find enough time... but other things have to come first. MGL can now use the TFTP services of the bootrom in some limited way: it tells the bootrom which bootimage to load via TFTP and the bootrom then loads and runs that image. It is not possible to load abitrary data via TFTP and let the bootrom return to the MGL program. > - disabling netboot and restoring interrupts implemented in netboot since version 0.7 (required for MGL). gero. -- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. - Ernest Hemingway -- Gero Kuhlmann, Hannover 0511/6497525 (Voice) gero@gkminix.han.de
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