Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
I have not seen any answers regarding Items 1,2, or 3, so I will contribute one
for Item 1, and 2. To properly build both items, on NetBSD, and probably on
FreeBSD, as well, will require a newer version of the Binary Utilities. The
version shipped with Release 1.4, which is the first one I started working, is
2.9.x.x. The version required is 2.10, or later, currently the version number
is 2.10. It is available from, of all people Sources Redhat, formally Sources
Cygnus. Try http://sources.redhat.com for further details. You should also
upgrade the version of  GCC, and the version of GDB, as well. Source, for both
of them, is available from the same place. It should build correctly, on
whatever version of NetBSD this whole idea is being built on. I found out about
most of this, when I first tried to build Grub on NetBSD on Intel version, (or
release!) 1.4. But this is one Jedi Knight's opinion, your distance traveled in
kilometers will vary.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Gillham
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:56 PM
> To: Claus Andersen
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Real mode kernel bootstrapper
>
>
> Claus Andersen writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Handling of PXE has been dicussed several times (especially on
> > tech-install) and there seems to be three general ways to go about this:
> > 1) Use Grub.
> > 2) Use Etherboot.
> > 3) Use Intel "demo" code and load a 1.44Mb floppy image.
>
> FWIW, I have been testing PXE also.  I have been able to modify the netboot
> startup code just enough to start a 'netboot' binary loaded via PXE.
> It actually can boot also, but as the PXE code has the fxp card in a
> certain state netboot times out at first.
>
> Obviously the correct fix would be to write a 'UNDI' driver for netboot
> so it can use the PXE provided hooks. (and thus support "correct" operation
> on different cards)
>
> I have a motherboard with a SIS900 ('sip') ethernet that supports PXE so
> having a UNDI driver is pretty required for it.
>
> -Andrew
>
>