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

Timothy Legge wrote:

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

I create nk.bin and flash it into FLASH MEMORY, not bios chip :).

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

Isn't this about your thingy: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Compaq-T1500-HOWTO/?
T1500's flash filesystem structure is different from t1000, nk.bin
prolly won't work at all.

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

It started for me, so I think it is possible :).


bye,
Filip Zyzniewski
Ekatalog


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