OK, the smartcore-p5 just booted linux, using etherboot, over the network.
The problems were as follows: 1) The smartcore does not quite have all the peripherals of a "pc80" Etherboot uses channel 2 for calibrating time, which doesn't work, so we needed to hack on etherboot a little 2) etherboot has an old 8255x driver which doesn't quite check correctly for the 8255x on the smartcore. We applied a simple fix. 3) smartcore is a P5, so trying to boot a PII kernel is not a useful idea. Almost there. ron
