Subject: Re: Diskless systems
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/03/1999 14:09:20
gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com said:
> Last I looked, sys/i386/stand/netboot couldn't create a ROM image, as
> it was too large.

The Makefile in stand/netboot must be changed to produce
something useful. You'll probably need a larger ROM_SIZE,
and if it is still to large you can kick out compression
support (SA_USE_CREAD).

To get it into 16k is proctically impossible however
(since loadfile() - perhaps a slim version should be
written).

> I would really like to build working ROMs for several of my ethernet
> cards.  :) 

I'm using boot ROMs built with this code heavily, mostly
on 3com cards.

best regards
Matthias