[haiku-development] Re: [GSOC] xhci or USB3.0 support initial patch

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:30:11 +0200

Le 31 mars 2011 à 17:23, Axel Dörfler a écrit :

> Jian Chiang <j.jian.chiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:10:03 +0200
>> "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Jian Chiang <j.jian.chiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Can haiku boot from NFS? It will helps a lot especially when
>>>> doing kernel development.
>>> No, but it can boot from network nevertheless with the
>>> remote_disk_server that is also in the repository.
>>> http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/booting/over_local_network -
>>> hopefully
>>> still up to date :-)
>>> Note that you'll have to run your own DHCP server to make this work
>>> as
>>> it boots via PXE.
>> Thanks for this site link. Now I come across another problem, I can't
>> setup another DHCP server because there's already one. How to resolve
>> this
>> problem?
> 
> I have the same setup here, and solved this by only giving out an
> address for this particular machine. Since the other router is slower
> to respond, there haven't been a problem with this yet :-)
> Another work-around would be to connect both machines directly.

Or hints from forums...
http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/force-dhcpd-ignore-MAC-address-ftopict37640.html
of course if you can change your DHCP setting...

>> PS: I really like the powerpc solution which can hardcode the IP
>> address
>> "boot enet:TFTP_SERVER_IP,boot_loader_openfirmware,MY_IP_ADDRESS"
> 
> That's the beauty of OpenFirmware. It's pretty much dead these days,
> though.

Note MultiBoot2 has a provision for Netboot...

François.

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