3COM 3C905CTXM come with the boot PROM built in along with
a configuration program for it. I have not used this functionality,
but I know the cards work with Caldera OpenLinux and OpenBSD
so they should work with RedHat.
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of diskless linux boxes that currently boot from the
> network. Currently they boot from a floppy that has a kernel rdev'd to
> mount it's root filesystem from NFS. It sends out a bootp request to get
> it's IP from a dhcp server.
>
> I'd like to change this method to use a boot (p)rom on a network card.
> This way I don't need to have a separate kernel on a floppy for each
> machine. The kernel can be downloaded from the bootp/dhcp server.
> Anybody have any experience? esp. what ethernet cards and boot (p)roms
> work well with linux? Is it still the case that the boot prom needs to be
> burned or are there pre burned ones that work with linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
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