"Philip Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Ok, this much is true. However, my personal sticking points aside, if there > is an 'official' way of doing things, why then is the install guide so thin > on the ground on these matters? If a bug should be filed against the > install guide to improve it, i would gladly, because it is as near as > useless for booting tftp and nfs root machines (on intel at least). the > simple question of getting etherboot, for example - there are others, to > boot tftpboot.img is not even mentioned, and that does seem to be one of the > main uses of tftp booting on intel, though perhaps I am mistaken.
Yes, it is rather thin. I've used grub with network card support (needs a recompile, the maintainer refused to include binaries for network support in the Debian package) to do tftp boots. It requires a NFS root, i.e. a installer directory with dbootstrap etc. mountable from somewhere. For example, this is the grub command-line I used to boot up a note PC to start up a shell: kernel (nd)/boot/netboot init=/bin/sh root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/,flags= ro regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]