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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:12:31 -0500
From: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>
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Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it!
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I hate to disagree but my setup loads pxeboot
from /tftpboot (as per the tftp line in inetd.conf)
and my DHCP options specify the root fs as /pxeroot.
pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc from /pxeroot.  It's
confusing I know.  It also appears to load /pxeboot
via tftp and /boot/loader.rc via NFS.   Maybe I 
just have an ill advised configuration.

This configuration developed as I figured out how
things were put together.  I haven't gone back and
cleaned things up; but it needs it.

Thanks.

Paul Saab wrote:
> 
> Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote:
> > Except if pxeboot can't read loader.rc you could be hosed.
> > Since pxeboot is loaded over the network, you might not
> > be able to mount the root fs and read /boot/loader.rc.
> > I was just trying to set the default case to assume serial console
> > like you can with boot[012].
> 
> pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc over the network from the same place
> the PXE bootrom loaded pxeboot.  It is done with either NFS or TFTP
> (depending on what you compile).  Therefore, if it could load pxeboot,
> then it can more than likely load /boot/loader.rc.
> 
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