Re: PXE multiboot FreeBSD and other OSes?
Kimmo Mustonen wrote: My goal is to be able to multiboot FreeBSD, Linux and some other OSes and different versions using PXE. I don't want to install boot loaders on hard disks because I want to boot several different machines to different OSes every now and then. I don't like the idea of using a boot floppy or boot CD either. Any other suggestions? I don't understand your question completly: a. Do you want to boot different machines differently from the same server? b. Do you want to boot the same machine but different versions of FreeBSD? c. Do you want to create a diskless multiboot machine? or..? a: For each host you can specify different pxeboot loader and different root-path in the dhcpd.conf. b: Booting the pxeboot-loader it will run the loader.rc scripts, you can set this up to offer different boot menu. If you use TFTP to fetch these, this can set different nfs root paths c: This I don't know. cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PXE multiboot FreeBSD and other OSes?
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Erik Norgaard wrote: c. Do you want to create a diskless multiboot machine? Mainly c). a: For each host you can specify different pxeboot loader and different root-path in the dhcpd.conf. This is what I have now. I just cannot change from FreeBSD to some other OS without checking the HW address and changing the boot loader from pxegrub or pxelinux to pxeboot, because the others cannot boot FreeBSD. b: Booting the pxeboot-loader it will run the loader.rc scripts, you can set this up to offer different boot menu. If you use TFTP to fetch these, this can set different nfs root paths This probably solves the problem changing dhcpd.conf each time I want to change between FreeBSD versions. Thanks. I guess there's no way to make an entry in loader.rc that would enable FreeBSD loader to load other operating systems or other pxe boot loaders (like pxegrub to continue from there)? c: This I don't know. Is there a better forum or mailing list to ask about this? Regards, Kimmo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
