From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 18:00:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B3116A4CF for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:00:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFC643D62 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:00:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0QI0T75027261; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:00:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:00:29 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: kamalp@acm.org Message-ID: <20050126180026.GD31269@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050126163048.GB31269@dan.emsphone.com> <20050126164930.90112.qmail@web52702.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050126164930.90112.qmail@web52702.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use loader to load kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in an ext2 filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:00:37 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 26), Kamal R. Prasad said: > Is it possible to load the loader on redboot, then > have the loader tftp the kernel over ethernet? There is a PXE version of the loader (pxeboot) that will load a kernel from tftp or nfs, but it requires a dhcp server to get the server's IP and its kernel filename from. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com