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Re: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge

To: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge
From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:14:59 -0700
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Kip Macy wrote:
I am using Grub 0.95 with an UNDI patch I found somewhere, that means I
can PXE-boot from some (at least e1000) network adapters not directly
supported by Grub.


Thanks. Do you know offhand if that supports the tg3 chip?

No, sorry I don't. If you can't get the tg3 working another option is to drop in an eepro100 or old 3com just for use with Grub.

I would recommend NFS for debug-rootfs, as with iSCSI you still have a
chance of corrupting the fs image.

Do you export a separate mount point to each client, or do you have
something like cluster NFS?


What I usually do for debugging is share the same mount point, and then mount /tmp and other similar stuff from a ramdisk formatted at boot, or from tmpfs.

Jacob

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