Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:58:48 -0800 From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@house.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Diskless PXE clients: loader.conf.<MAC-address> ...? Message-ID: <9E8C857C-7AA0-11D8-A650-000A95791556@house.org>
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I'm running FreeBSD 4.9_RELEASE and I'd like to share my server's root
partition as the root partition for some diskless PXE clients, but I
need different kernels for the server and clients. The /conf
structure works great for providing different /etc environments for
each machine, but I can't figure out how to boot a different kernel for
my PXE clients.
The only way I can think of is to have a custom /boot/loader.4th that
tests the environment (e.g boot.netif.hwaddr or loaddev) and reloads a
different kernel depending on the result. I've gone down this path
a bit, but I think I've only learned enough Forth to be dangerous and
I'm in over my head. Something like:
\ need to figure out where to put this snippet...
s" boot.netif.hwaddr" environment? [if] s" 00:00:24:c1:2a:64:"
compare 0= [if]
\ set kernel="/kernel.NET4501"
: kernel s" /kernel.NET4501" ;
[then]
Is there an easier way to do this? Am I missing something totally
obvious like a
loader.conf.<MAC-address>?
Thanks,
-- Chris
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