Hi,
One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your
machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent
version of the PXE firmware)
there is no real document on PXE booting
you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on
<http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html>, the manpage for pxeboot,
the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with
dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a
root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?)
there is also somme documentation on Intel's web site
I'm trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes
pxeboot just crashes)
TfH
Rohit Rakshe wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running FreeBSD 4.1 on an Intel-III box. It is not a diskless
> machine, so root fs is still local, but I need to boot kernel over
> ethernet.
>
> Reason for such a requirement: I am doing some kernel debugging and it is
> relatively quicker (after a panic) to recompile kernel on a server and
> reboot the test machine with the kernel on the server.
>
> Currently available info doesn't seem to help me a lot. Any suggestions ?
> Thanks a lot !!
>
> - Rohit
>
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