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-This code produce bootloaders for a number of cards that can be
-loaded from raw or DOS-formatted floppy/hard disks and ROMs
-to boot ELF/aout kernels over NFS or TFTP.
-Edit work/etherboot/src/Config to see/set the desired features.
+This code produce bootloaders for a number of cards that can be loaded
+from raw or DOS-formatted floppy/hard disks and ROMs to boot ELF/a.out
+kernels over NFS or TFTP. Edit work/etherboot/src/Config to see/set
+the desired features.
The defaults used here are suited to boot FreeBSD ELF kernels over NFS.
-To produce an etherboot floppy (or HD partition) do
+To produce an etherboot floppy (or hard disk partition), do this:
- cd work/etherboot-5.2.4/src
- cat bin/boot1a.bin bin/<device>.zrom > /dev/fd0
+ $ cd work/etherboot-5.2.4/src
+ $ cat bin/boot1a.bin bin/<device>.zrom > /dev/fd0
Replace <device> with the specific code for your card, and /dev/fd0
with your hard disk partition.
-WWW: http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
+WWW: http://etherboot.org/wiki/