Well if it is in the form of a CD (ie: not replacing the boot-rom already
in the DC) then it is not a boot-rom. What you are describing sounds an
aweful lot like the IPSlave CD.

Regards,
Drew Vogel


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Leonardo Weiss Chaves wrote:

>Hi,
>
>   isn't it possible to implement something like a
>netboot for the Dreamcast? Like on my PC for instance:
>I made a boot-rom for my network card and created a
>bootdisk with it using lilo, so that I only need one
>disk to boot any OS I want over DHCP/NFS. Wouldn't it
>be possible to make a boot-rom for the dreamcast and
>put it on a CD-Rom? It would surely make linux and
>netbsd development for the dreamcast much easyer. Here
>a reference:
>
>    http://www.etherboot.org
>
>Bye
>
>Leonardo Weiss
>
>--- Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
>> In article <20020924145026.26358.qmail@schnarff.com>
>> alex@schnarff.com wrote:
>>
>> > loading? If so, is it possible to create a CD that
>> instructs the system to
>> > go  find a new kernel via NFS and load it? If so,
>> how?
>>
>> Kernels with kloader support can load a new kernel
>> to boot
>> from any filesystem. It is port specific feature and
>> originally implemented for hpc* ports, but works on
>> dreamcast
>> with patch in my previous post.
>> ---
>> Izumi Tsutsui
>> tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
>
>
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