From: Alex deVries <adevries@thepuffingroup.com>
To: Mike Hibler <mike@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 02:24:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <377DACB9.64FE3EF2@thepuffingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199907030440.WAA28078@fast.cs.utah.edu
Mike Hibler wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 03:24:37 +0100
> > From: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-03 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-03 4:40 [parisc-linux] Booting the kernel Mike Hibler
1999-07-03 6:24 ` Alex deVries [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-07-03 2:24 Jon Peatfield
1999-07-01 22:41 Davin Petersen
1999-07-01 22:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-07-01 23:15 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1999-07-02 13:26 ` Helge Deller
1999-07-02 18:38 ` Alex Apostolopoulos
1999-07-02 11:23 ` Giles Lean
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