freebsd-ports/net/etherboot/pkg-descr
Luigi Rizzo 3724810b31 Update to 5.0.1, which includes a boot sector to load
the ROM code from the hard disk, and an improved "tulip" driver.

Also make boot over NFS the default method. This is seems to me
more flexible in that NFS is often required for diskless
configurations, and gives slightly better control than TFTPD on
who is allowed to access the server.

Approved-by: maintainer
2001-05-11 11:57:32 +00:00

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This code was originaly from FreeBSD and then the Linux folks greatly
enhanced its functionality and capabilities. It produces ROM-able
code to boot ELF/aout kernels over NFS or TFTP. It also includes
boot loaders to load the ROM images from raw floppy or hard disks,
or DOS disks.
There are different ROM images for different network cards
(many are supported). They are built in work/etherboot/src/bin32.
Edit "Config" in work/etherboot/src directory for more features,
default is to boot ELF kernels over NFS.
To make a floppy image do
cd work/etherboot/src ; gmake bin32/<device.fd0
.COM images are made via gmake bin32/<device type>.com .