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====== EtherBoot/GPXE Wiki ====== Here you will find various information about the EtherBoot Project, and a repository of useful contributions from people who use EtherBoot and gPXE. ===== Documentation for EtherBoot users ===== * General EtherBoot information * [[scenario|Introduction: A typical network boot scenario]], including explanations for new users * [[logos|Logos for Etherboot and rom-o-matic.net]] * [[troubleshooting|Troubleshooting FAQ]] * [[eb_imagetypes|EtherBoot image types explanation]] * [[filename_specification|How to specify which boot file to load]] * [[twodhcpservers|Having more than one DHCP-server on a network]] * EtherBoot in virtual machines / EtherBoot in emulators * [[vmware|How to use EtherBoot in a VMware virtual machine]] * [[vmwarebios|How to use EtherBoot as ROM in the VMware BIOS / EtherBoot ROM in VMware's and Bochs' network cards]] * [[bochs|How to use EtherBoot with Bochs]] * [[burningroms|Burning ROM chips]] * [[realtek8139roms|More specific: for Realtek 8139 NICs]] * [[bootingmemdisk|Booting Memdisk]] * [[disklessdos|Diskless MS-DOS (and compatibles)]] * [[disklesswin98|Diskless Windows 98]] * [[windowsntloader|Loading EtherBoot from a Windows 2000/XP NT loader]] * [[msris|Using EtherBoot with Microsofts Remote Installation Services (RIS)]] * [[biosmodule|Putting EtherBoot into your BIOS]] * [[freebsd|Booting FreeBSD]] * [[lilowithetherboot|Using LILO with EtherBoot]] * [[mknbi|mknbi utility description and manpage]] ===== EtherBoot additional features ===== EtherBoot main function is to network boot a PC. Besides, there are quite some optional features that can be added by compiling them into EtherBoot: * [[pxe|Using EtherBoot as a PXE boot rom]] * [[pxe2ndstage|Using EtherBoot as a PXE 2nd-stage-loader]] * [[multicast|Multicast protocol support (slam/tftp-multicast)]] * [[safebootmode|Experimental SafeBootMode cryptographic boot image check]] * [[aoe|ATA-over-Ethernet (experimental)]] * more to be documented... ===== Developer information ===== * [[dev:todo|ToDo-List]] * [[dev:devmanual|Developers' manual]] ===== Google Summer of Code ===== We are very pleased to be participating in [[http://code.google.com/soc/ | Google's 2006 Summer of Code]] Project! * Here are [[soc|EtherBoot/gPXE Ideas and Resources for Google Summer of Code]].
