Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way I can net boot a Alpha Linux box with inital ramdisk.I > mean how do I prepare a kernel image that is downloaded from the tftp > server that have inital ramdisk also. Right now I am booting the > machine from the local hardisk with the ramdisk as an independent file. > I want to supply both the inital ramdisk and the kernel image through > the tftp server.I also need to pass various kernel arguments like > root=/dev/ram0 and init=/linuxrc . Is it possible to use mknbi from > etherboot.sourceforge.net for preparing Alpha Linux kernel also ?
There is a patch for aboot which adds support for combining a kernel with an initrd image for netbooting. You can find it at http://bugs.debian.org/aboot -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
