From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA29633 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 00:18:54 -0600 Sender: adevries@feather.thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <377DACB9.64FE3EF2@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 02:24:57 -0400 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hibler CC: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk, alex@assyst-intl.com, deller@gmx.de, parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Booting the kernel References: <199907030440.WAA28078@fast.cs.utah.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Mike Hibler wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 03:24:37 +0100 > > From: Jon Peatfield > > To: alex@assyst-intl.com, deller@gmx.de > > Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Booting the kernel > > > > This reminds me, does anyone have a working rbootd which runs on anything > > other than HP-UX? If we turn all our HPs into Linux boxes it would be nice to > > still be able to boot them. Of course looking at the rboot packets on the wire > > shows that they are not anything I recognise... > > > > There is an rboot daemon that comes with all the BSDs and I believe the > same daemon will work on Linux as well. There were some endian problems > once, but I think they were all solved so it should work on x86 boxes. > It requires BPF. I fixed up rbootd to run on Linux awhile ago... you should be able to find it on ftp://puffin.external.hp.com. - Alex -- Alex deVries Vice President of Engineering The Puffin Group