From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 23:07:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C769116A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:07:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86D843D1D for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:07:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B91FD008; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:07:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41BF723D.2040803@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:07:41 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kimmo Mustonen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE multiboot FreeBSD and other OSes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:07:45 -0000 Kimmo Mustonen wrote: > My goal is to be able to multiboot FreeBSD, Linux and some other OSes > and different versions using PXE. I don't want to install boot loaders > on hard disks because I want to boot several different machines to > different OSes every now and then. I don't like the idea of using a boot > floppy or boot CD either. > Any other suggestions? I don't understand your question completly: a. Do you want to boot different machines differently from the same server? b. Do you want to boot the same machine but different versions of FreeBSD? c. Do you want to create a diskless multiboot machine? or..? a: For each host you can specify different pxeboot loader and different root-path in the dhcpd.conf. b: Booting the pxeboot-loader it will run the loader.rc scripts, you can set this up to offer different boot menu. If you use TFTP to fetch these, this can set different nfs root paths c: This I don't know. cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2