>Yes, recent bios generally have a "LAN" option which passes control to the >eprom on the ethernet card. Older ones just went to the card eprom so long >as the chip was there, with a valid program. I hear in the Etherboot lists >that you can burn the image itself in the motherboard bios, in some cases, >but we never tried that. >
Indeed. I don't generally truck with recent BIOSes but if I did... many of the latest motherboards have large flash parts; some new ECS boards have 2Meg parts, for instance. This really aids the argument for putting a microkernel in the BIOS and dispensing with all of the other diskless boot solutions. The latest rev. of LinuxBIOS allows you to boot pretty much any OS you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
