On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:35:52PM +0100, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to diskless boot my i386 machine. I think I only need the first
> stage bootloader, because I actually want to load memtest86 over a roomful
> of machines over the network. But I can't work out where to get a diskless
> bootloader from. Will /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym work? Or do I need a special
> networky one?

You need a special one. I think what's you're looking for is
'netboot' or 'pxeboot' (from sys/arch/i386/stand). for pxeboot you need
a -current snapshot.

But I don't think the NetBSD boot loader can load memtest86. Maybe GRUB can
(it's in pkgsrc).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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