jeff-
are you trying to do pure network booting? (ie, not nfsroot)
if you havent checked out the network interface loader, do so at:
http://www.nilo.org/
i remember vanilla pxe boot having a limit of a 512kb kernel (either due
to pxe or the tftp server i was using) a few years ago, but it looks
like there are several work arounds for this now. i doubt that you
could compile your own kernel and get xfs and all the other bits you
needed into an image that small. but it may be worth a shot, and let
the list know of your success or failure ;)
fwiw, i considered it a victory when i got xfs and all the hardware
support parts i needed onto a floppy for nfs booting. ;)
good luck!
rob.
On 16 Aug 2001 14:43:27 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jeffrey K Butkovich wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble doing this. The kernel net boot image is too big.
>
> Too big for what? I'm not well versed in net booting, but I thought it
> just NFS mounted a remote filesystem to get it's kernel? If there's
> some type of restriction on the size of an actual kernel image, would an
> initial ramdisk help you? (man mkinitrd).
>
> -Eric
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