Re: Booting Linux w/ Netware Bootrom?

[Robert Thompson <robertt@stargate.cs.swau.edu>]

In every case I've ever run into, this was merely an option to tell the
BIOS that you want to boot from a bootprom on an external net card. It
will then try to find a valid bootprom in the system and boot from it.
Well, there was one case where this started the Intel PXE environment.

I am unaware of any motherboards with builtin bootroms. The only case
where this would seem to make sense would be for a built-in netcard, since
the bootprom code would be unique the the netcard. 

I claim no universal knowlege of this, and am quite probably overlooking
motherboards out there that do something like this, but I've not seen
them.




On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Harald Milz wrote:

|
|Hi,
|
|there seem to be many machines/boards around which have a built-in Netware
|bootrom which can be activated in the BIOS Setup ("boot from LAN" or so).
|Is there any way to use this feature to boot Linux? This would save people
|(me) from installing a second network card and/or a Flashcard (which in
|some cases isn't even possible because there is no expansion slot).  
|
|

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