From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 18:45:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6DD106566C for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 18:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftigeot@sekishi.zefyris.com) Received: from pizza.zefyris.com (pizza.zefyris.com [IPv6:2001:7a8:bd07:2::253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7728FC0C for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 18:45:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftigeot@sekishi.zefyris.com) Received: from sekishi.zefyris.com (sekishi.zefyris.com [IPv6:2001:7a8:bd07:2:219:d1ff:fe81:e03]) by pizza.zefyris.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4SIjUKK039033 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sekishi.zefyris.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sekishi.zefyris.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n4SIjU8x025257 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ftigeot@localhost) by sekishi.zefyris.com (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id n4SIjUJl025256 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:29 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090528184529.GA25249@sekishi.zefyris.com> References: <4A1D0DD2.2090209@t-online.hu> <44909.80.95.75.131.1243420547.squirrel@mail.deployis.eu> <4A1E38FA.1070208@t-online.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4A1E38FA.1070208@t-online.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (pizza.zefyris.com [IPv6:2001:7a8:bd07:2::253]); Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: PXE boot FreeBSD without need of NFS server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:45:33 -0000 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:10:50AM +0200, Mikael Bak wrote: > 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. Have a look at ThinBSD. It a mini FreeBSD-5.x system which uses a ramdisk image as root. It can be booted from a TFTP server, without NFS. The web site is here: http://thinbsd.zefyris.com/ I use it everyday to run a X terminal. -- Francois Tigeot