well, I alreadyt made a floppy but now im starting from pure dos using xxxx.com programs. In fact when I tried to copy it to the floopy i had the similar problems as u describe, but I compiled the boot1a.bin program so I could copy it to the floppy with the cat utility. I cant remember how I did, but I remember I had to do it manually after compiling the boot prom itself, let me see...It looks it works oh I think I did this:
goto ./ether_something/src then type make bin/boot1a.bin If you have an original Makefile it should compile boot1a.bin & place it in src/bin/ THen all you have to do is proceed with instructions in the etherboot manual.. regards. It seemed my problem was related with the ether= thing in the kernel command line. I hanvent been working on that, but I will try it soon thanks On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, David Wright wrote: > > > How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just > starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to > centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. > The etherboot tutorial says to > cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0 > but the etherboot distribution doesn't contain any "floppyload.bin" (yes, > I did make it) and the ROM images from http://www.rom-o-matic.net end in > .lzdsk not .lzrom, which I'm not sure is the same. Is there a more > up-to-date tutorial which does etherboot with boot floopies? > > On a related note, the 2.2.x kernels must be built with an "allow root to > mount over nfs" option to get this to work, but this option appears to be > gone from the 2.4.x kernels. Is it unnecessary, or just hiding? > >
