[SCore-users-jp] [SCore-users] pxe boot for EIT

[Shinji Sumimoto]

Hi, Nick.

Thank you for sending PXE boot for EIT image.

I have received your first E-mail properly (maybe).

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ls tftpboot results.

  drwxr-xr-x    3 s-sumi   s-sumi      4096 Aug 16 07:36 .
  drwxr-xr-x    4 s-sumi   s-sumi      4096 Aug 19 14:39 ..
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 s-sumi   s-sumi    742130 Aug 15 23:08 initrd.img
  -rw-r--r--    1 s-sumi   s-sumi     10052 Aug 15 22:51 pxelinux.0
  drwxr-xr-x    2 s-sumi   s-sumi      4096 Aug 16 07:33 pxelinux.cfg
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 s-sumi   s-sumi    671411 Aug 15 23:08 vmlinuz
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Shinji.

From: Nick Birkett <nrcb at streamline-computing.com>
Subject: [SCore-users-jp] [SCore-users] pxe boot for EIT
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:16:34 +0100
Message-ID: <200208190716.g7J7GZD02876 at zeralda.streamline.com>

nrcb> Sorry my last mail was rejected because it was too big.
nrcb> 
nrcb> Please replace dummy vmlinuz and initrd.img by the ones from the EIT5 boot
nrcb> floppy.
nrcb> 
nrcb> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nrcb> Hi, we have pxe boot working for EIT. Perhaps this can be incorporated in the 
nrcb> next release as there are now budget priced compute servers that come
nrcb> without floppy or cdrom ?
nrcb> 
nrcb> Method: Set up dhcpd server and tftp server, and make sure BIOS in compute 
nrcb> node includes network boot. 
nrcb> 
nrcb> Compute node first obtains EIT vmlinuz and initrd.img from boot server (e.g
nrcb> front end node). this then boots and rest  works  same as EIT5 with floppy.
nrcb> 
nrcb> The IP range for dhcp does not have to corresond to EIT IP range as long as 
nrcb> they are on the same subnet.
nrcb> 
nrcb> 
nrcb> Sample config files  are attached.
nrcb> 
nrcb> The file pxelinux.0 is taken from the latest pxelinux (part of  Syslinux 
nrcb> package). 
nrcb> 
nrcb> Also there is a small bug in 
nrcb> 
nrcb> /mnt/cdrom/setup/config5/ndpostpro-skelton  
nrcb> 
nrcb> (on SCore 5.0.1 cdrom)
nrcb> 
nrcb> # Other local settings if you specify $INSTALL_PATH/etc/pcc-env.sh
nrcb> #
nrcb> if test -f $parameter(installPath)/setup/install/pcc-env.sh ; then
nrcb>     $parameter(installPath)/setup/install/pcc-env.sh
nrcb> fi
nrcb> # 
nrcb> 
nrcb> should read (wrong Path) :
nrcb> 
nrcb> # Other local settings if you specify $INSTALL_PATH/etc/pcc-env.sh
nrcb> #
nrcb> if test -f $parameter(compInstallTmpPath)/setup/install/pcc-env.sh ; then
nrcb>     $parameter(compInstallTmpPath)/setup/install/pcc-env.sh
nrcb> fi
nrcb> # 
nrcb> 
nrcb> Cheers,
nrcb> 
nrcb> Nick
nrcb> 
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Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Labs