[Aoetools-discuss] Boot FreeBSD from AoE

2009-05-01 Thread Matthias Teege
Moin,

i have some FreeBSD System which I want to boot from gPXE/AoE. I read
the Coraid document about using aoe with freebsd but I'm not sure if it
possible to boot FreeBSD from AoE? At the moment I can boot a FreeBSD
Kernel via gpxe from an aoe target but it isnt possible to mount the
root filesystem.

Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from AoE target?

Many thanks
Matthias


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Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Boot FreeBSD from AoE

2009-05-01 Thread Tracy Reed
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:25:03AM +0200, Matthias Teege spake thusly:
 Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from AoE target?

Does FreeBSD have some sort of initrd system like Linux does? I
imagine it must have. I have Linux booting from AoE by PXE booting a
kernel and initrd. The initrd loads the aoe module and sets up any
necessary networking to make the AoE root fs accessable and then
continues with the normal boot process. I bet FreeBSD can do
similar. You will probably have to make the FreeBSD initrd yourself
just like I did for Linux.

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