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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Diskless boot at cambridge
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:14:59 -0700
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Kip Macy wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> Thanks. Do you know offhand if that supports the tg3 chip?

No, sorry I don't. If you can't get the tg3 working another option is to 
drop in an eepro100 or old 3com just for use with Grub.

>>I would recommend NFS for debug-rootfs, as with iSCSI you still have a
>>chance of corrupting the fs image.
> 
> Do you export a separate mount point to each client, or do you have
> something like cluster NFS?
> 

What I usually do for debugging is share the same mount point, and then 
mount /tmp and other similar stuff from a ramdisk formatted at boot, or 
from tmpfs.

Jacob