network Booting ELKS as a pre-boot environment?

["Martin Atkins" <martin@cs.york.ac.uk>]

Has anyone thought about/tried network booting the ELKS
(non-protect mode 8086-compatible Linux subset kernel/system)
and using this as a pre-boot environment?

This would provide, shall we say, considerably more flexibility
than DOS-based pre-boot environments!

The biggest difficulty I can see is getting ELKS to co-exist with
the bootrom image/memory layout, and be able to call back to it
to continue the boot. Presumably it would also have to make calls 
to the boot image's ethernet driver (rather than using native elks
drivers) using a dummy driver, so that it would be possible to 
return to the rom image and carry on.

Just a thought :-)

Martin
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Martin Atkins, martin@cs.york.ac.uk
Senior Experimental Officer
Department of Computer Science
University of York

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