Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:19:18 -0800 From: Paul Saab <ps@mu.org> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: Rohit Rakshe <rakshe@cs.umn.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation Message-ID: <20010316141918.A46855@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com>; from thierry@herbelot.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:57:49PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103161022490.22253-100000@melchizedek.cs.umn.edu> <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com>
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Thierry Herbelot (thierry@herbelot.com) wrote: > Hi, > > One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your > machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent > version of the PXE firmware) > > there is no real document on PXE booting > you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on > <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot, > the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with > dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a > root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?) > > there is also somme documentation on Intel's web site > > I'm trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes > pxeboot just crashes) Upgrade the PXE rom http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/pxeroms/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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