From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 16 8:33:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (mail.cs.umn.edu [128.101.34.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2F137B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:33:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rakshe@cs.umn.edu) Received: from melchizedek.cs.umn.edu (rakshe@melchizedek.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.51]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24168 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:33:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (rakshe@localhost) by melchizedek.cs.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA22308 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:31:40 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: melchizedek.cs.umn.edu: rakshe owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:31:40 -0600 (CST) From: Rohit Rakshe To: Subject: Remote boot, but not diskless operation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am running FreeBSD 4.1 on an Intel-III box. It is not a diskless machine, so root fs is still local, but I need to boot kernel over ethernet. Reason for such a requirement: I am doing some kernel debugging and it is relatively quicker (after a panic) to recompile kernel on a server and reboot the test machine with the kernel on the server. Currently available info doesn't seem to help me a lot. Any suggestions ? Thanks a lot !! - Rohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message