Etherboot README

Markus Gutschke and Ken Yap, markus+etherboot@gutschke.com, ken.yap@acm.org

1. Introduction

• 1.1 What hardware is supported?
• 1.2 Availability of this document
• 1.3 Getting help

2. Unpacking, compiling and testing the package

• 2.1 Unpacking the distribution
• 2.2 Compiling the ROM images
• 2.3 Testing the ROM images

3. Setting up a diskless boot

• 3.1 Making a tagged image
• 3.2 Compiling a custom kernel
• 3.3 Setting up a bootp daemon
• 3.4 Setting up a DHCP daemon
• 3.5 Setting up a tftp daemon

4. Testing the network booting

• 4.1 Setting up a NFS root filesystem
• 4.2 Initial ramdisk
• 4.3 Swap over NFS

5. Booting DOS

6. Making an Etherboot EPROM or EEPROM

• 6.1 Choosing the EPROM
• 6.2 Enabling the EPROM
• 6.3 Size and speed of the EPROM

7. Troubleshooting tips

8. Frequently Answered Questions

• 8.1 Building Etherboot
• 8.2 Testing Etherboot
• 8.3 Hardware capabilities
• 8.4 Booting Linux
• 8.5 Running X
• 8.6 Other client applications
• 8.7 Booting FreeBSD
• 8.8 Booting other operating systems (DOS, Windows)
• 8.9 Hardware issues
• 8.10 Drivers
• 8.11 Miscellaneous

9. Writing an Etherboot Driver

10. Acknowledgements (a.k.a. Hall of Fame)

11. Copyright