On Aug 13, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> wrote: > > I believe it's save to assume that a DHCP server is around, since this one is needed anyways to pxeboot the box. > So after the boot of our netboot.rd kernel, we need to figure out which interface was used for pxe config and then do a dhclient on this interface.
I thought Nick's work did much/all of this. > If we got an IP address, dhcp should probably give extra options, like the config server url where we then can find and download the additional configs. > We could and probably should use DHCP options, since as stated above, dhcp servers are available for the pxeboot anyways. Nick's work definitely did this. > Should we take this discussion off the list now? > If so, who would like to be part of the next emails? > I'd guess Loic, me, phessler (?), Nick Bender (?) and I will also add a colleague some might know (Uwe Stuehler <uwe@>). I would like to be included in any further discussion either at this email address or don dot jackson at gmail Here are two additional links that provide historical context, and links to past work: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/X01IcFJ0MVU/discussion https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/h1-jrS36lqo/discussion And lastly, IMHO, optionally, it would be nice if the eventual solution was capable of being pxebooted via iPXE - open source boot firmware [start] At present, I have not been able to get bsd.rd or any sort of OpenBSD installer to run via ipxe Best regards, Don
