[gPXE] Booting FreeDOS - beginner question

Ruzsinszky Attila ruzsinszky.attila at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 11:01:33 EST 2012


Hi David,

> I feel your FreeDOS pain.  I just spent two days setting up a bootable
> USB before I finally got it working.
:-)
Thanks! So you know what I speaking.
FreeDOS is not so important but I thought it is the most easy OS for
boot testing.

> Specifically, I was trying to flash gPXE into ROM on an intel NIC.
I think I don't have to because of the VM environment.

> So, I learned that gPXE is relatively low-volume.  Check out iPXE, which
> seems to be a fork.  They advertise that they actually have more
> commits/updates than gPXE.
2nd vote for iPXE. ;-)

Thanks for your information about setup. I'll try it out soon.

TIA,
Ruzsi


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