Re: Diskless boot at cambridge

[Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>]

> We use either grub with tftp (limited driver support here), 

I'm having hard time even getting to the GRUB prompt so I don't think
that is an option.

> or XenoBoot
> (now an optional function of the new Xen demo CD). 

Is that documented anywhere?

> We have a fairly
> elaborate system involving our lab-wide NFS tree and scripts and
> symlinks for getting the right images for each machine. 

We have innumerable mount points and so use the automounter (which you
obviously don't use as it is disabled in the default config).

> Root filesystems
> for diskless systems are either iSCSI, as previously discussed or NFS.

How would you give a machine a unique persistent initiator-name when
booting from a general cd?

 Thanks. 


               -Kip 


> James
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Kip Macy
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:29 PM
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge
> 
> All the power-cycling I've been doing appears have done bad things to
> the local disk on one of my development machines. I'm hoping that you
> might have short recipe on setting up diskless boot with xen.
> 
> I set up PXEboot long ago, but I recall the documentation as being
> rather poor.
> 
> Thanks.
>     -Kip
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