Re: etherboot, nfsrot
Edgar Hucek <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.xbox.devel |
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| 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504