Re: netboot question

[markus@infoscape.com]

Sidney Cammeresi writes:
 > but have not been able to find any information about things like
 > the state of the machine when the boot image gains control like
 > whether the machine is in real or protected mode, where the image
 > is loaded, at what offset the bootloader calls into the image, etc.

Check with the documentation that ships with etherboot. In particular, 
you probably want to read "doc/text/spec.txt". This describes exactly
how tagged boot images are loaded. If you want to load a non-supported 
operating system, you will probably have to write a tool that creates
the proper boot image for you. Have a look at the source code for
mknbi-linux and mknbi-dos for examples.


Markus

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