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Re: Raw loader for diskless GRUB


From: marco grigull
Subject: Re: Raw loader for diskless GRUB
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:33:31 +1100
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I've got a NIC (3com 3c905c TX-M) which supports BOOTP and can load
> images up to a certain size (~450 KB) via TFTP.  Unfortunately, the
> image is stored at address 0x10000 and onwards, so I couldn't any of
> the existing boot loaders, and couldn't load the 'diskless' image
> directly.  In order to solve this problem, I've written a small loader
> which copies the 'diskless' image to adress 0x8200 regardless of its
> initial location.
> 
> If you're interested, I'll clean up the code and you can have it.

I am interested if this can load /boot (openbsd's boot loader) as it
 also has this the problem of not being allowed to load under 1 MB.

Cheers
Marco

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