[9fans] PXE

[9fans] PXE

[Lucio De Re]

I now have a VXL Precio diskless workstation that I would like to run
Plan 9 on.  I can convince it to use PXE to boot, but I don't know
quite what's involved to make it work properly.

Right now, it looks like it doesn't even register a DHCP requests, but
I really don't know enough about PXE (in fact, I think I know
precisely nothing about PXE) to judge.

What seems I ought to know, anyway, is how I can tuck a plan9.ini
somewhere for 9pxeload to find it, if I can get PXE to load it, of
course.

Is anyone preapred to give me a crash course on PXE for Plan 9?  Or
point me to relevant documentation?

++L

Re: [9fans] PXE

[David Presotto]

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No documentation.  I have to finish the PXE stuff to make it a little easier.
Right now, I use PXE to get a 9load and then type the real kernel address
by hand when 9load prompts.

What I intend to do is have an extra entry in the ndb that indicates which
file to download for PXE and which for 9load.  I can distinguish using the
vendor id (or some such).  I'm on vacation but I'll finish it when I get back,
not a lot of work.

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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] PXE
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:13:05 +0200
Message-ID: <20030916191304.H9751@cackle.proxima.alt.za>

I now have a VXL Precio diskless workstation that I would like to run
Plan 9 on.  I can convince it to use PXE to boot, but I don't know
quite what's involved to make it work properly.

Right now, it looks like it doesn't even register a DHCP requests, but
I really don't know enough about PXE (in fact, I think I know
precisely nothing about PXE) to judge.

What seems I ought to know, anyway, is how I can tuck a plan9.ini
somewhere for 9pxeload to find it, if I can get PXE to load it, of
course.

Is anyone preapred to give me a crash course on PXE for Plan 9?  Or
point me to relevant documentation?

++L

Re: [9fans] PXE

[Sape Mullender]

> I am trying to use pxe loading. I can load 9pxeload and 9pcdisk then
> start the kernel. When 9pxeload start his try load /cfg/pxe/<card_MAC_address>,
> what I need put to this file?

/cfg/pxe/<card_MAC_address> contains the Plan9.ini file.

	Sape
	

[9fans] PXE

[Sergey Reva]

Hello all,

I am trying to use pxe loading. I can load 9pxeload and 9pcdisk then
start the kernel. When 9pxeload start his try load /cfg/pxe/<card_MAC_address>,
what I need put to this file?

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