Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:10:50 +0200 From: Mikael Bak <mikael@t-online.hu> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?G=F3t_Andr=E1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu>, pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE boot FreeBSD without need of NFS server Message-ID: <4A1E38FA.1070208@t-online.hu> In-Reply-To: <44909.80.95.75.131.1243420547.squirrel@mail.deployis.eu> References: <4A1D0DD2.2090209@t-online.hu> <44909.80.95.75.131.1243420547.squirrel@mail.deployis.eu>
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Pertti, András, Thank You for the useful links! Kiitos and Köszönöm szépen :-) Gót András wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK only the kernel and initrd (in the linux case) can be booted from > tftp, that's a PXE feature. When the kernel loaded it takes over and from > then on the kernel will need a rootfs from somewhere. I don't think that a > tftp rootfs is possible. > Yes, I know it's not possible to have the rootfs on tftp. That is not my goal. I only wish to host an image file containing a rootfs that will act as a ram disk. Much like the initrd does in the Linux world. The rootfs will only contain the things needed to start the installation process. I think I have the information I was looking for. Thanks again! Mikael
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