Etherboot is a somewhat misleading term, as it can be used to boot from various 
devices now including IDE.

However, I've really grown to like FILO ( http://te.to/~ts1/filo/ ) by Sone Takeshi. 
Follow the instructions for building and configuring it and use filo.elf as your 
payload.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:19:28 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Can anyone explain how to boot an isolated box using LinuxBIOS, i.e. not
> etherboot. What do I use as the payload? (I did think it would be the kernel
> itself, but even a minimal config compiles to around 850KB which is no way going
> to fit in my EEPROM).
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> (BTW, in answer to my previous post, CVS archives are available here:
> http://snapshots.linuxbios.org/)
> 
> Thanks,
> Surj
> 
> 
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