Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:57:49 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Rohit Rakshe <rakshe@cs.umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation Message-ID: <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103161022490.22253-100000@melchizedek.cs.umn.edu>
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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) TfH Rohit Rakshe wrote: > > 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 -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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