On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:13:42PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
> This is some where in the middle of my Ltsp server on XP experiment.
that doesn't sound very fun... :)
> I finally managed to get vmlinuz -2.6.26-1-486,
> initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486 and a i386.img (file system). For this I used
> Debian Lenny and installed ltsp-server package, and then
> ltsp-build-client --create-ext2-image.
i haven't really tested this much since i wrote that feature...
note that the --create-ext2-image option is a little different than the NBD
image that ltsp-update-image creates (or --sqaushfs-image). it uses
nbd-client's initramfs-tools hooks, and a plain ext2 filesystem, which can be
tweaked by mounting the image. it was noticeably faster than NFS, too...
> I wish to boot the ltsp-kernel using grub and load the file system
> (i386.img) over the network from a server (which ever).
>
> I have copied the said files except i386.img to another debian
> lenny's /boot, and modified the menu.lst in /boot/grub and created a
> new title. But how do i specify the root fs?
why not just network boot them?
> Normally it is 'root (hd0,0)' . How do i change it so that the
> i386.img gets loaded from 192.168.0.196:/opt/ltsp/image/ ?
you'll need nbdrootd configured in /etc/inetd.conf:
update-inetd --group LTSP --add "2000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/nbdrootd"
the commandline arguments you'll need to pass, which should already be
configured in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default if you're using
the typical network booting:
root=/dev/nbd0 ip=dhcp boot=local nbdroot=192.168.0.196,2000
live well,
vagrant
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