From: bs <bs@nospam.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] BOOTP vs DHCP
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:32:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF5074A.2080503@nospam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd5f7cf72808a5ee7cc1ac750286000e@plan9.bell-labs.com>
David Presotto wrote:
> PXE BIOS's don't need a pxe server. They just use dhcp and tftp
> to pick up a program to load at 0x7C00 and then jump to it.
>
> The only thing that's different about PXE BIOS DHCP's is that they
> set the vendorclass to something starting with PXE.
>
> PXE BIOS's do provide a 16 bit interface for doing further tftp's
> etc but, since 9load already does all of that in 32 bit mode, there's
> no real reason.
>
> 9pxeload is just a 9load that knows that it gets loaded at a
> different location and that has to shift from 16 bit mode
> to 32 bit mode when it starts.
So can we all boot from the labs extranet machine if we can dhcp/tftp to it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-22 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-22 0:14 David Presotto
2003-06-22 0:49 ` bs
2003-06-22 1:05 ` David Presotto
2003-06-22 1:32 ` bs [this message]
2003-06-22 2:27 ` David Presotto
2003-06-22 2:53 ` bs
2003-06-22 2:56 ` bs
2003-06-22 1:21 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-22 2:38 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-22 2:46 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-06-22 4:14 ` northern snowfall
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