OpenBSD Journal

PXE network boot added to -current

Contributed by jose on from the booting-without-media dept.

MotleyFool writes: "network boot via PXE was added on March 19 check it out by downloading it from the snapshot area. I'd recommend reading the man page for it also.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=107970399408097&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=107971998311313&w=2
and the pxeboot manpage "

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  1. By Eric () on

    The next great step would be if there could be some configuration engine like kickstart that is developed. Yes, yes- I know, I can roll my own if I wanted to.

    Comments
    1. By MotleyFool () motely@fdst.it on mailto:motely@fdst.it

      Geez, can people get ANY more needy? If you don't want to roll your own then fund someone to do it. I know I've contributed ~ US$1k of my own money to the project.

    2. By marco () on

      http://fugu.bsws.de

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      1. By Anonymous Coward () on

        that link should be removed as it is way too outdated for cur. OpenBSD...

    3. By philipp () pb@ on mailto:pb@

      man..

      go to /usr/src/distrib/miniroot
      and "fix" the install.sh to your needs and
      rebuild floppyXX.fs

      *sigh*

  2. By Anonymous Coward () on

    I have a diskless openbsd sparcstation which I use as a router/firewall. Because it has multiple network interfaces, it asks me what the nfs root device is every time I boot.

    Is there a way to configure the kernel so it knows that the root device is hme0? Or do I have to hack the source? I've done alot of reading of man pages and googling, but I haven't found the solution so far...

    I know this isn't a support forum, but I presume this question would apply to i386 as well, so I'm on topic at least.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      You can't choose on i386. It just chooses the first one. If it doesn't work, it panics.

  3. By Anonymous Coward () on

    I gave this a spin last night, and it works a charm :-)

    Comments
    1. By Eduardo Alvarenga () eduardo at thrx dot org on mailto:eduardo at thrx dot org

      I've tryied making a Etherboot floppy disk to boot straight into PXE but Etherboot does not support PXE so well. Anyone knows any project that provides a stable PXE environment for non-PXE NICs?

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