Can the net boot loader be changed so that a load-base of 600000 will work?

Wouldn't that be more reasonable than making an exception to the normal
load behavior?



At 12:19 PM 12/10/01 -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>
>> At 9:40 AM -0800 12/10/01, you wrote:
>>
>> :)When netbooting, load-base has to be set to an INCORRECT value. Henry's
>> :)suggestion of 500000 works, and I usually use 640000.
>> :)
>> :)Yes, this is weird.
>>
>> [sigh].  Time to add yet another exception to the installation notes.  Can
>> you think of any explanation, or should I just have "because I said so".
>
>I think it's because:
>
>1) the net boot loader uses the "load-base" area as a scratch pad. It
>loads packets to that address, and then deals with them.
>
>2) the net boot loader is smart enough to look in the files to figure out
>where they go; it doesn't need to be told from the environment.
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill
>
>

Michael Thompson
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