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| author | Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-02-18 08:50:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-02-18 08:50:24 +0000 |
| commit | f3b9ca556a202fe13388a48a30216ca6267cc139 (patch) | |
| tree | 202d39732e5bd4d57f273a2de784391c8e394e53 /net/etherboot/pkg-descr | |
| parent | Add xml-lite.el, provides a simple indentation engine for XML. (diff) | |
Upgrade etherboot to 5.0.5, improve pkg documentation and use more
sensible defaults for FreeBSD. Specifically:
Makefile, distinfo:
upgrade to etherboot 5.0.5
pkg-descr:
improve description on installing on floppy/hd
files/patch-aa:
implement some FreeBSD-specific defaults, namely:
+ boot1a.s
use a FreeBSD partition type instead of a DOS partition type
+ makerom.c
pad the image size to multiples of 8k instead of powers of 2.
This makes the tulip image fit in the 62 sectors which are
typically unused on the first track of hard disks (other images
were already 16k so there is not a problem with them).
+ Makefile
make the disk loader bin/boot1a.bin be compiled by default
All these diffs are in the same patchfile because they are very
short, version independent (they even work with 5.0.4 and probably
earlier versions of etherboot) and will be contributed back to the
developers, so it is not worthwhile to clutter the ports subtree
with multiple patches.
Approved-by: maintainer
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=54855
Diffstat (limited to 'net/etherboot/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/etherboot/pkg-descr | 23 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/net/etherboot/pkg-descr b/net/etherboot/pkg-descr index 1c769468e924..9ff2f03f8992 100644 --- a/net/etherboot/pkg-descr +++ b/net/etherboot/pkg-descr @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ -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. +This code produce bootloaders for a number of cards that can be +loaded from from raw or DOS-formatted floppy/hard disks and ROMs +to boot ELF/aout kernels over NFS or TFTP. +Edit work/etherboot/src/Config to see/set the desired features. -There are different ROM images for different network cards -(many are supported). They are built in work/etherboot/src/bin32. +The defaults used here are suited to boot FreeBSD ELF kernels over NFS. -Edit "Config" in work/etherboot/src directory for more features, -default is to boot ELF kernels over NFS. +To produce an etherboot floppy (or HD partition) do -To make a floppy image do - cd work/etherboot/src ; gmake bin32/<device.fd0 -.COM images are made via gmake bin32/<device type>.com . + cd work/etherboot/src + cat bin/boot1a.bin bin32/<device>.lzrom > /dev/fd0 + +Replace <device> with the specific code for your card, and /dev/fd0 +with your hard disk partition. |