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I would like to try to build something like that for ppc and net |
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booting it, I have a lot of ram too |
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Peter where you thinking of writing a script to build the root system? |
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If you want to start a project I'm down, I know bash, perl and php. |
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Peace, |
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Karl |
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On 20-Oct-08, at 20:49, "Peter Abrahamsen" <rainhead@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I got the crazy idea to boot my servers purely from netboot with |
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> their root filesystems being initramfs archives coming from tftp on |
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> pxeboot. |
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> Is this reasonable? I tried just passing a cpio of my desired root |
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> partition as the initrd option, but it ended up using my hdd as |
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> root, I think because my initramfs didn't have a file at /init. |
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> Everyone else seems to just use their initramfs in order to boot |
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> something else, like nfs, but I've got plenty of RAM and don't |
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> really want to introduce the additional complexity and latency of NFS. |
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> Anyone done anything like that? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Peter |
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