On 12/12/05, Eduardo Costa Lisboa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/05, Cristi Mitrana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since you want to make a PXE boot you can use 2 approaches: > > 1) use pxelinux (the LTSP default) but in this case you cannot do > > without an initrd, since pxelinux cannot boot a NBI image (just as > > Etherboot does), it needs to get a normal kernel and initrd just as > > another boot loader does (lilo, grub, etc). > > Actually, you can boot a machine without initrd; it is just a matter > of configuring it correctly. I have done it in a non-LTSP environment > and worked pretty nice. Although the howto I read was a Gentoo's, I > have tried it on Debian and worked flawless. >
Yes, linux can be booted without an initrd, but for a LTSP client the initrd is the one that has the necessary programs for setting up the NIC and mounting the root filesystem over NFS before the boot process is handed over to the /sbin/init from the NFS share. I'm not sure if the kernel can do this by itself, without any aditional programs (e.g. like the NetBSD/FreeBSD kernel can do), for instance the NFS swap creating/mounting I'm quite sure the kernel cannot do that automatically. -- mitu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
