Andrew Gillham writes:
> Is the new netboot code ready for primetime?  I wanted to burn
> a ROM, (ok a FLASH ROM) but the image is 32940 when genprom expects
> it to be 32768.  Is this supposed to work, or is it still in progress?

Its nearly, but not quite, baked.

You can get the rom in under the size needed by applying Matthias'
recent patch that disables symlink handling in the libsa nfs code --
this squeezes out enough bytes...

> Also, a very minor thing... Am I the only one that wishes that
> hitting enter at the boot menu would do an immediate like the
> old one?  I'm so well trained to hit enter twice in OSBS (once
> for OSBS, once for boot), that I keep ending up at the menu.. :)
> Regardless of such a silly annoyance, I think the new boot code
> is great, I love booting compressed kernels!  Now to burn that
> bootable CDROM.
> 
> -Andrew
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