From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 16 14:19:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0928437B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8B0CD81D01; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:19:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:19:18 -0800 From: Paul Saab To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: Rohit Rakshe , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation Message-ID: <20010316141918.A46855@elvis.mu.org> References: <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com>; from thierry@herbelot.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:57:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > , 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