Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Ted Unangst wrote: > You can also run two tftp servers on two different IPs. The new tftpd also has this: -r socket Issue filename rewrite requests to the specified UNIX domain socket. tftpd will write lines in the format "IP OP filename", terminated by a newline, where

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 13:14, russell wrote: > can be configured via boot.conf but there is no way to specify > a kernel based on the machine actually booting, > can only hard code the kernel image in. > and even if I kept different pxeboot binarys they would still use the > same boot.conf > > w

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 8/09/2012 6:14 AM, russell wrote: ... my intention is to hack boot.c(my guess, at this point I am still just looking at source) to check for and use some sort of global kernel macaddress var pxeboot claims to set. ... I played with a similar patch from here many years ago: http://nbender.com

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 08 September 2012 15:11:07 Ville Valkonen wrote: > On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell wrote: > > On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: > >> > >> On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell wrote: > >>> > >>> I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure > >>> out >

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell wrote: > On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: >> >> On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell wrote: >>> >>> I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure >>> out >>> how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. >>> >>> Is

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread russell
On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel based on something machine de

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell wrote: > I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out > how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. > > Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel based on something machine > dependent, for example, mac address?

pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-07 Thread russell
I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel based on something machine dependent, for example, mac address? If not, I have been digging around in sys/stand