Making a network bootable image of memtest86...

[Gabe & Emily]

> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:45, Michael Robinson wrote:
> > I believe this is just a binary that is usually copied to the beginning
of a
> > floppy disk, no filesystem.  It's for testing memory on x86 computers
and
> > can be fetched from http://www.memtest.com.  Floppy disks and lilo
> > install is all fine and dandy but I want to be able to network boot
> > memtest via etherboot.  I got Tom's root boot to come up this way.
> > What HOWTO's do I need to figure out how to create my own initrd
> > Linux system?
>
> memtest86-3.0 binaries are already network bootable - just use etherboot
> and point the DHCP configuration at the memtest86 binary (placed in
> /tftpboot).

What is the deal with etherboot?  I hear about it from time to time.  Anyone
feel good about giving a quick explanation?

Thanks,
Gabriel