> :I'm offended, and a little amused. You say "you aren't listening to
> :what I'm saying", yet you have quoted a paragraph in which I say
> :"... it doesn't require any buy-in from motherboard vendors."
> :
> :Are you calling me a liar, or stupid, or are you not reading what I'm
>
> No, I'm just giving you the reality. Until I can buy *generic*
> motherboards and/or ethernet cards that actually netboot, what
> standards a few of them might use is moot.
You can. Go do it. Guess what I'm working on PXE with? Yes, if you
make a bad buying choice on the network card, you're going to spend a
few dollars on a bootprom. *shrug* Welcome to "bootable" vs.
"non-bootable" network cards.
> We have exactly the same issues with netbooting that we had with CDRom
> booting.
Actually, what we have is the same set of issues that we've had with
booting from cards with their own firmware since about 1986. (Possibly
earlier; that's just when I first got involved with it.)
By your logic, until motherboards have options for controlling the boot
order of eg. plug-in SCSI adapters there is no point in you buying
plug-in SCSI adapters. So what have you been using for the last
thirteen years?
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