Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
Dave,
would you mind providing some more information about your netboot image? Maybe even make the image/ tools available for other people to use?
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www.etherboot.org, this web site will make you the rom image, then you need the chip, mine was a 27c16 I think, then a programmer to burn the prom chip. The web site supports most any network card that has a spot for a 28 pin chip, etc.
Thanks for the info. I am looking for the remote root file to send to the diskless client. Any pointers for this?!
I used gentoo, the boot rom will request a kernel from a tftp server, and send it to the client, and boot the kernel, so you have to spin up a kernel for that client, you can use the diskless nodes howto at gentoo wiki to get a better idea.
A lot of newer motherboards will use PXE boot, therefore no boot rom needed.