RE: [Possible spam] Booting a biosless machine (almost done).

> > If you could provide additional steps (as detailed as 
> possible) I can 
> > take a look.  I would love to get my T1510 running, so I would be 
> > willing to try a few things.
> > 
> 
> No no no :). I just use -DLINUXBIOS because it doesn't depend 
> on bios as much as pcbios. There is still NO BIOS AT ALL in 
> this machine. You could  do what I did and create a pxe image 
> or something to be used by network boot mode.
> T1000 is windows based, so it requires a whole bunch of weird 
> stuff to get anything free there. You have a simpler job :).

Hi

So do you simply program the resulting Etherboot image into the bios
chip, that is, how do you get it to load etherboot?

My T1510 is also very weird and will probably require as much work.
More details would be appreciated.

> Let me clarify that:
> - the same /boot/netkernel booted on a normal pc with normal 
> etherboot gives nice console output on a serial port
> - the same kernel booted on Compaq without etherboot starts fine.
> - I do not use video card in Compaq at all for now.
> 
> Power off is instant (it doesn't even get to startup_32 in 
> kernel - i tried putting foo: jmp foo there, and it still 
> powered off instead of stopping. foo:jmp foo worked right 
> before lret in xstart32 in etherboot).

I ask this because I do not know.  Is it even possible to start a linux
kernel withou some bios (at least Linux bios)?

Tim

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