Re: Diskless

[Rob Myers <rob.myers@gtri.gatech.edu>]

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