# Re: \[PATCH\] Lots of changes to PReP booting

- From: Matt Porter \<hidden\>
- Date: 2001-10-26 12:06:20 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2001/10/9379136
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2001/10/9379136/t.md

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:59:15PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> Hey all.  Can people _please_ go and test this (disk and net if
> possible) and tell me if their machine still works?  The following
> changes have been made:
> 1) On 'znetboot' and 'znetboot.initrd', no longer give mkprep the -pbp
> option.  This allows my PowerStack (PPCBUG) to netboot successfully.
> This _hopefully_ won't break anyone else tho.

Why?  You wanted to netboot from PPCBUG with PReP Network Boot disabled?
My PowerStack's have been booting fine with the -pbp'ed image (one
with the PReP header intact).  We've been doing it this way for years
now.

--
Matt Porter
mmporter@home.com
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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