Re: etherboot, nfsrot

Edgar Hucek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.xbox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi.

Look at our bios cromwell for the xbox. It has etherboot support.

cu

ED.

Am Freitag, 4. Juni 2004 20:00 schrieb [email protected]:
> I would like to be able to boot Linux on an XBox over the network.
>
> Currently, I have systems that use a floppy to run etherboot and
> load the linux kernel over the network and the linux kernel uses
> nfsroot to mount the root filesystem over the network.  The systems
> are thus diskless (except for the floppy).
>
> I would like to use a similar boot method for the XBox.  The etherboot
> code would have to live on the XBox hard drive, but everything else
> would come from a server on the network.
>
> Has this already been done?
>
> If not, can someone give me some pointers on how to get the XBox
> to run the etherboot code instead of the linux kernel?
>
> Thanks.


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