If you already have tftp booting setup, the easiest way for you to do
this is to replace the kernel and initrd.img with those from the
systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 package
(they live in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard). You should
also replace your elilo.conf file with this one:
#<<<< BEGIN >>>>
#
# Sample elilo.conf for netbooting ia64 systemimager clients
#
# Inside your tftp directory you may also want to do this:
#
# mkdir -p ia64/standard
# cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard/* ia64/standard/
#
default=systemimager
image=ia64/standard/kernel
label=systemimager
initrd=ia64/standard/initrd.img
root=/dev/ram
append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0"
#
# Uncomment APPEND line below, and comment out APPEND line above, to use
# both monitor (tty0) and first serial port (ttyS0) as console at the
# same time.
#
# NOTE: Be sure your serial port speed is appropriate (57600, 9600, etc.)
#
#append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8"
read-only
#<<<< END >>>>
This just added to the FAQ:
When the autoinstall client software (BOEL) is booted, if the LAST_ROOT
append parameter has been used, then BOEL attempts to mount and read a
local.cfg file from the device specified in LAST_ROOT (Aka: the device
that was root on the machine before it was rebooted). BOEL then tries
to read a local.cfg file from the floppy drive (if one exists).
Finally, BOEL makes a DHCP request, if it still doesn't have enough
information to connect to the network. Once it knows it's IP address,
it resolves this to it's host name, then retrieves an autoinstall script
from the image server based on it's hostname (Ie: hostname.sh).
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm hoping someone can clear up some confusion with booting and
> autoinstalling itanium based systems. Currently I have systemimager
> working fine, images are stored and updated. I currently use that in
> conjunction with kickstart to reinstall nodes. However, I'd like to move
> away from that and go totally to systemimager, for performance reasons
> mostly, but also because its much easier to update images and push them
> out. But I haven't been able to get the ia64 boot portion to work, mostly
> because I'm not exactly sure what I need. My kickstart install uses
> tftpboot, so that portion that is needed by systemimager works fine with
> EFI netboot. But do I use the initrd.img from
> systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 rpm and if so, how does the netboot
> system know where to get the image? So if I copy an elilo.efi from my
> distro into /tftpboot, and make an elilo.conf file, what do i use for
> image and initrd?? The files from the ia64boot rpm from above?
>
> I appologize if these are stupid question, but it was not obvious from
> reading the documentation and FAQ exactly what I need to do for ia64
> booting. Thanks for any help
>
> Jason
>
>
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