On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:50:13PM -0600, Jason Holland wrote: > > 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?
either from the dhcp server (see mkdhcpserver), or from an option passed via the kernel command line. > 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? yes - kernel & initrd.img, respectively. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
