On Thursday 01 March 2007 02:38, Robin Humble wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:36:05AM -0600, Michael Edwards wrote: > >This is possible in principle, but I don't think the OSCAR infrastructure > >supports this sort of "on the fly" booting to an arbitrary OS in anything > >like real time. This is expensive in terms of network usage and boot > > I can triple-boot a cluster here... > > - OSCAR5 centos4.4 via normal channels, except it always network boots > - the oneSIS NFSroot system into a centos4.4 via network boot with a > different kernel and args and pointing it at the ro NFRroot dir > - if I toggle tftp to point to 'DEFAULT localhost' then it boots from > the local hard disk which has a SLES10 partition on it
I suppose you are using netbootmgr to toggle the boot variants. If not, you might want to try it. Regards, Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
