Etherboot User Manual

Ken Yap and Markus Gutschke, <kenUNDERSCOREyap AT users PERIOD sourceforge PERIOD net>, <markus+etherboot AT gutschke PERIOD com>

1. About this User Manual

• 1.1 Purpose / Scope of this User Manual
• 1.2 Obtaining the most recent version of this document
• 1.3 Document history
• 1.4 Feedback
• 1.5 Copyrights and Trademarks
• 1.6 Acknowledgements and Thanks

2. Introduction to Etherboot

• 2.1 What is Etherboot?
• 2.2 Legal status of the code
• 2.3 What hardware is supported?
• 2.4 Getting help

3. Unpacking, compiling and testing the package

• 3.1 A short cut to getting ROM images
• 3.2 Unpacking the distribution
• 3.3 Compiling the ROM images
• 3.4 Adjusting the PCI IDs
• 3.5 Testing the ROM images

4. Setting up a diskless boot

• 4.1 Making a tagged image
• 4.2 Compiling a custom kernel
• 4.3 Setting up a DHCP daemon
• 4.4 Setting up a bootp daemon
• 4.5 Setting up a tftp daemon

5. Testing the network booting

• 5.1 Setting up an initrd filesystem
• 5.2 Setting up a NFS root filesystem
• 5.3 Other filesystem setups
• 5.4 Swap over NFS

6. Booting DOS

7. Making an Etherboot EPROM or EEPROM

• 7.1 Choosing the EPROM
• 7.2 Enabling the EPROM
• 7.3 Size and speed of the EPROM

8. Troubleshooting tips

9. Frequently Answered Questions

• 9.1 Building Etherboot
• 9.2 Testing Etherboot
• 9.3 Hardware capabilities
• 9.4 Booting Linux
• 9.5 Running X
• 9.6 Other client applications
• 9.7 Booting FreeBSD
• 9.8 Booting other operating systems (DOS, Windows)
• 9.9 Hardware issues
• 9.10 Drivers
• 9.11 Miscellaneous

10. Acknowledgements

11. Source copyrights