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Re: pxeboot com0 no more



Maybe I should clarify-
Could I build _just_ installboot on my mac and change that file
without messing up anything?

On 1/5/06, David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:25:14PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > Basically, I was doing this: (how-to not finished, but do check out
> > the pics :) )
> > http://www.mspo.com/soekris.html
> >
> > Could I just build installboot and run it against the pxeboot file
> > without messing up anything?
>
> yes - you need:
>     installboot -e -o console=com0,speed=0,timeout=999 pxeboot_ia32.bin
>
> assuming you are running something recent enough!
>
> Setting the speed to 0 will recover the speed from the uart registers!
>
>         David
>
> --
> David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost
>



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