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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Diskless boot at cambridge
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:49:01 -0700
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James Bulpin wrote:
> Kip,
> 
> We use either grub with tftp (limited driver support here), or XenoBoot
> (now an optional function of the new Xen demo CD). We have a fairly
> elaborate system involving our lab-wide NFS tree and scripts and
> symlinks for getting the right images for each machine. Root filesystems
> for diskless systems are either iSCSI, as previously discussed or NFS.

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.

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

Jacob