On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Gavin, > what worked for me (on a normal old PC) was this: > I plugged in the cfcard via adapter as hda, booted a live Linux from > cd > and used fdisk to give the cf a ext2 file system. Than I made a > /boot/grub dir on /dev/hda1 and 'just' copied menue.lst, stage1 and > stage2 there. Than I installed grub in the mbr (with the grub shell) > of > /dev/hda1. > I fetched the boot-rom from rom-o-matic (the grub/lilo image *.zlilo) > and placed it in /boot.
Even easier: * boot from a live cd * fdisk to make some filesystem (anything that you'd like) * mount it ie mount /dev/hda1 /mnt * install grub: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda then > Edit menu.lst to this: > timeout 0 > title LTSP > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/your_romimage.zlilo > OK thats not a pxe boot, but it works (at least for me) You can get a PXE boot image > Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently have been given a couple of handy little i386 servers > which take > > a hard disk and a CF disk. > > > > The previous owner had what appears to be a freebsd etherboot image > on the > > CF disk (which appears as IDE) which comes up and makes a dhcp > request but > > doesn't manage to boot (it seems to send a packet on udp port zero). > > > > As this doesn't completely work and I'd rather use PXE, I've been > trying to > > use a new image from rom-o-matic. I've not been having much luck > though > > and am unclear what image type I need. The network card appears to > be the > > eepro100:82559er but I can't quiet get things to work. > > > > Does anyone know what sort of image I should use and any special > options > > that might be needed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
