From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 22 19: 9:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E06337B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A21243FBD for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 3261 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Feb 2003 03:09:23 -0000 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless: 5.0R scripts, boot, NFS mount problems I didn't have in 4.7S References: <87el65pi4e.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <200302191844.h1JIiUIh004070@apollo.backplane.com> <87smufiz66.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <200302230146.h1N1kQrZ024560@apollo.backplane.com> From: Chris Shenton Date: 22 Feb 2003 22:09:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200302230146.h1N1kQrZ024560@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <87lm07itgc.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > If you do this pxeboot will attempt to load the kernel via TFTP > instead of via NFS. You then put your kernel in /tftpboot right along > side a copy of pxeboot. > This allows you to netboot a different kernel then the one in the > server's root directory. Ahhhhh... [sound of lightbulb going on] I was wondering why it would be useful to get the kernel via TFTP rather than the NFS mount. Makes sense. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message