Hi Bernard,

> I am working on implementing a "netboot" for kboot, so that it will
> work similarly to pxelinux/syslinux.  However, I need your help to
> update netbootmgr so that it can handle both pxelinux and kboot
> simultaneously.

AFAIK you have things like wget, tftp and busybox available in kboot, which
means the most appropriate way of supporting netbooting would be to use the
same config file, as for syslinux/pxelinux, try downloading that via tftp from
the next-server (provided by dhcp) or the server which provided you the
address, and look for the file as pxeboot does: under
pxelinux.cfg/MAC-Address, pxelinux.cfg/HEXADDRESS or
pxelinux.cfg/default. Then parse the downloaded config file, locate kernel,
initrd, download them by tftp and generate on the fly a kexec command. I
wonder whether this doesn't exist already. Anyway, if you do it this way,
there will be no difference for managing kboot network booting and normal
pxeboots.

Regards,
Erich



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