[K12OSN] Rom-o-matic OT

Chris Thomas cwt137 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 13 02:23:10 UTC 2004


Hi,

I think the zrom will also work if you put it into an
Phoenix or Award BIOS.

Chris
--- Timothy Legge <tlegge at rogers.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 22:28, Kevin Verheyen wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I'm trying to find an explanation about the
> different output formats 
> > you can generate
> > at rom-matic.net
> > but cannot find usefull information.
> > 
> > Can someone please explain me the differences
> between the types of 
> > fomats?
> > (.com and .zdsk are known yet)
> 
> zdsk = Floppy version (cat eb.zdsk > /dev/fd0)
> zrom = Rom version to be written to a eprom 
> iso = Bootable cd 
> liso = cd with support for a floppy like loader
> zlilo = loadable via a boot loader (lilo, grub etc)
> zpxe = load etherboot via pxe
> com = Dos loadable version
> elf = linux bios
> 
> Most users will start with the zdsk, possibly
> graduate to zpxe and do a
> post graduate degree in zrom (require an eprom
> programmer or some
> specific NICs and eproms).
> 
> Most of the other formats are fairly specalized.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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