Thomas M. writes: | I was just trying to get mknbi-blkdev to work with my etherboot-4.0pre8 | (AFAIR). | But i keep getting a error message from the loaded image, something like: | No valid blockdevice found in bootp record (or something like that). I haven't traced that out, when I ran into that problem I just modified the source to boot the partition I needed. Which still didn't help ... I'll explain later. | I was planing on using it to start win95 off the local harddisk, right | now i disable/enable the bootprom every time i change from linux/netware | to win95... Booting win95/win98 from the disk is a problem. Note that etherboot already has code to boot a hard drive or floppy. However I haven't figured out what needs to be changes in the boot code so that win95/98 doesn't lock up. I fixed the code in the exit by grabbing the patches from the update of the FreeBSD netboot code. So for now the solution I have been using is to burn an eprom with the "Boot from network" prompt with the default of no. This way the machine boots win95 and if I want to boot over the net I answer it as yes. Not the ideal solution but okay for now. I plan to still poke at the boot from hard drive win95/win98 problem. Booting FreeBSD and I assume Linux doesn't have this problem since we know what they require to boot. Doug A.
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