Re: net booting using standard manufacturers bootroms

[Crispin Murphy <crispin@myra.com>]

John Finlay wrote:

>I'm missing some key piece of information to make this work.

Here's what we do here:

I built a linux workstation with a disk in it, configured it how we wanted it.

I tarred the entire filesystem over to an NFS server.

I installed BOOTP, TFTP, and Netboot on a Solaris server.

I compile a new kernel with NFS-Root.

I ftp it to the solaris server (doesn't have to be solaris, but it was convenient)

I run mknbi-linux on the new kernel image, and put it in the TFTP Dir.

I change /etc/bootptab to have the stations boot the new kernel.
 

As for the prom issue, I used the netboot functionality to make a netboot ROM
image, and used dd to write it onto a floppy disk (WARNING: don't use solaris,
or any other big-endian machine to write the disk... use rawrite in dos or dd in
linux...)

That's it.  The same tool that makes the floppy disk image also makes the PROM image - note that they're not the same image type though.

Crispin

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