Remote boot w. PXE etc.

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:43:55PM -0400, Thomas R Boehme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would recommend using syslinux for the PXE remote boot process
> It's a lot easier and works reliable for 32 nodes in our cluster.
> It also gives you the possibility to configure every node independently.
> 

Cool !

Do you know if it supports booting from local disk as well ?  Ideally
I want a menu to appear on the machines where the user can select
"Boot real OS from boot server" and "Boot experimental stuff from HDD".

I was just looking into  http://www.kano.org.uk/projects/pxe/ but it seems to
suffer from the same problem as the Intel PXE daemon, that all clients must
have the same config.     However, this code should be in a state where it's
fixable - the Intel code was horrible beyond imagination.

 You can find it at:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
> 
> Just make sure you follow the pxelinux.doc file in the archive. The most
> important part is getting the right tftp-server (we use tftp-hpa, see the
> docs).

I'll check out syslinux now.

>> 
> Hope that helps,
> Thommy
> 

I'll let the list know what happens (or, worst case, you will watch it on
CNN...  ;)

Thanks a lot !

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