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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Diskless boot at cambridge
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:51:14 -0700
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> We use either grub with tftp (limited driver support here),=20

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).=20

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.=20

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.=20


               -Kip=20


> James
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> I set up PXEboot long ago, but I recall the documentation as being
> rather poor.
>=20
> Thanks.
>     -Kip
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