I'm looking for advice on network boot loaders for non x86 systems, in particular PPC-64, IA64 and AMD-64. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andy Wray
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wray wrote: | I'm looking for advice on network boot loaders for non x86 systems, in | particular PPC-64, IA64 and AMD-64. | Any suggestions? We got a thread on this list some time ago about IA64: http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-October/000962.html bye Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+jaQD2gF1h3CVOsMRAtJHAKD9Ex4btXBUCPrl7jaClLzoY5l0rQCff9tI VrxqU9qmgC/FLr2/XjxCwRw=/qKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Andrew Wray wrote:> I'm looking for advice on network boot loaders for non x86 systems, in > particular PPC-64, IA64 and AMD-64.Well, AMD-64 is also known as x86-64, and is backwards compatible with 32 bit machine code, but I don't remember whether or not 32-bit code can load a 64-bit OS. You might want to read a few of the whitepapers at: http://www.x86-64.org/ Steve Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Andrew Wray wrote:> > >I'm looking for advice on network boot loaders for non x86 systems, in >particular PPC-64, IA64 and AMD-64. > > >Use elilo. I boot ia32/ia64 from the same dhcp/tftp/nfs servers using elilo for ia64 and pxelinux for ia32. Michael