From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE boot? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:32:46 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bae099d8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 28 May 2003, David Presotto wrote: > Where do you get a plan9.ini from during the PXE boot? I was just > wondering how I would do it when your mail arrived. I don't... I still don't have it clear in my mind how I would get a machine to boot as a diskless cpu server just through PXE. I was just trying to see if the PXE would even jump to 9load successfully. I need to experiment a bit more with this -- currently I'm staring at a blank screen with just the DHCP information on (if I attempt to load a 9pcauth kernel directly the machine reboots, which is just what I expected). I need to read more about PXE to find out whether it expects 9load to be linked at a specific address or not. I also see that it attempts to pass options to tftpd, which the red-hat daemon does not expect (dhcp server is linux, just can't a dedicated plan9 machine)... Too bad there are no postcards around here :(... andrey