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+Etherboot 5.4.0
+
+PXE is now supported.  You will also need to configure your server to
+provide a pxelinux.0 loader file, kernel and initrd images, and a
+pxelinux.cfg directory with a appropriate configuration spec files.
+
+See the PXELINUX home page at:
+
+    http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
+
+for more information. 
+
+There is no longer a default target for make.  You must specify an
+argument to make. Help text is now provided to indicate possible make
+targets.
+
+It should be possible to compile Etherboot with gcc >= 3.3.3, including
+gcc 3.4.x now that a couple of bugs have been tracked down. Please mail
+reports of success or failure to the etherboot-users list, together with
+the versions of gcc and binutils used.
+
+gcc 2.x is not supported anymore. You need at least gcc 3.x to compile
+etherboot due to C99 constructs.
+
+Removed etherboot(-pci)?.* rule because there are too many drivers and
+the image will no longer fit in memory. I don't want to choose a subset
+of drivers as everybody will have different preferences. So I'm going to
+piss off everybody equally by deleting the rule. Use the multiple driver
+rule (driver1--driver2--...) and select your own subset of drivers.
+
+In order to create .iso and .liso images you will need to have the
+packages mtools-3.9.9 or later, and syslinux-2.08 or later installed on
+your system.  These packages are available in various locations and
+formats.  .liso images are like .iso but use floppy emulation.  If you
+have a very old BIOS and .liso images don't work you may wish to try
+adding the -s option of syslinux as a last resort.
+
+EMERGENCYDISKBOOT has been renamed EXIT_IF_NO_OFFER, which describes it
+better.
+
+Menuing using DHCP options (mknbi/menu.c) has been removed.
+
+.exe format can be generated by doesn't work so not publicised.