Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Richard A. Smith wrote: > > > > > What would be the possibility of writeing linux bios so that it shows > > up as a bios extension that never returns. > > I looked into this a year ago. We tried to make it work with dell 350. > We kept running into one problem after another. In the end we punted. They > claim it is easy but I think the BIOS vendors want you to pay (and pay and > pay) for the real information on how to make it work. > > However, I have no objection if somebody wants to try it again with > something reasonable. But Dell will not help you at all. Their attitude is > strictly oriented to increasing next-quarter sales.
Well if anyone wants to get code Etherboot to start as a BIOS extension etherboot has it. As for being easy, it isn't too bad but there are a lot of buggy BIOS's out there that make it very interesting to deal with. Eric
