Re: netboot Alpha Linux with inital ramdisk
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@digital.com> wrote:
> Is there a way I can net boot a Alpha Linux box with inital ramdisk.I
> mean how do I prepare a kernel image that is downloaded from the tftp
> server that have inital ramdisk also. Right now I am booting the
> machine from the local hardisk with the ramdisk as an independent file.
> I want to supply both the inital ramdisk and the kernel image through
> the tftp server.I also need to pass various kernel arguments like
> root=/dev/ram0 and init=/linuxrc . Is it possible to use mknbi from
> etherboot.sourceforge.net for preparing Alpha Linux kernel also ?
There is a patch for aboot which adds support for combining a kernel
with an initrd image for netbooting. You can find it at
http://bugs.debian.org/aboot
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