Eye of the beholder. No, not madness... PXE is giving me fits with both
FC4 and F7. DHCP... fine. PXELINUX... fine. Read the kernel... fine...
initrd... fine... then... URP... reboot...
This may seem convoluted, but it's all scripted and works every time
for FC4.
And the target MUST run from CF... so... PXE would just be a
convenience. (Not that I don't still try that again every now and
then.) I have also adjusted to editing things with an RO root... not a
problem. Custom list, custom tar from list... save as type, extract on
image from tar, cut flash... 10 minutes, start to finish. Poof! Push in
CF, 5 screws, ship to client. Send bill.
Chris Cappuccio wrote:
can't you just pxe boot the OS and install like normal?
this is sheer madness
R Bruce Hoffman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Because private mail was not what I expected from the list... just in
case someone else has the same question...
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And suppose you were a member of Congress...
But I repeat myself."
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R Bruce Hoffman
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0400
From: R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kannaiyan Natesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Fedora 7 no drives visible
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Honestly... no. I am unable to share the details of that information...
it's considered proprietary. And there is very little "truely" relevant
information currently available on the web.
Off the record... build an FC4 machine. Three partitions. First
partition full root and install. Boot. Mount second partition as
/duplicate, copy foundation to /duplicate. Screw with grub config to
bring up /duplicate as root (boot into second partition.) Scrub to small
system with essential services on /duplicate. Reboot back into first
partition. Construct image files on third partition. Mount image file in
loop device. Copy /duplicate parts to the mounted image file. Unmount.
Copy image to CF card. Grub up the CF card. Pull out the CF card. Mount
in Soekris.
But this is just the beginning. You need to mess with the init.d scripts
and Red Hat has specific ways of booting read only and shutdown's are a
problem as is making ramdisk images available for certain writeable
directories during normal operations.
Kannaiyan Natesan wrote:
Hi Bruce,
Can you please let me know how you managed to run Fedora Core 4 onto
CF and boot the soekris. I'm looking for similar solution for net
5501.
Thanks.
Regards,
kannaiyan
On 7/9/07, R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have both 4801 and 5501 running with Fedora Core 4 from CF.
I have noticed that during the attempted boot of Fedora 7, that there
are no drives visible during the nash init script running from the
initial ram disk image, nor during a non-initrd boot. No hda, no sda, no
labels...
Does anyone know what driver I might be missing here?
I have tried the various ones that are listed from a search of the
CS5536 and AMD stuff through the initrd image, (like , pata_cs5535.ko ,
5530 and 5520) but I don't see anything in the modules that acknowledges
the CF configuration like what happened in the FC4 versions.
Is this just a matter of the 5536 being too new for Fedora? Or am I
missing something else?
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