mareo

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   How LWN is faring in 2025(lwn.net)

   4 points by mareo 1y ago|0 comments
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   by mareo 9y ago

   iPXE uses the iBFT[1] to pass this information to the OS. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/bladecenter/iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.03.pdf[1]
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   by mareo 9y ago

   I'm an occasional iPXE contributor, I guess it's my time to shine! Bootloaders are reading block of data from CR-ROM, disk, floppy or USB drive by using int 13h[1] whose handler is set by the BIOS. A bootloader is only asking the