Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/09/08 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs root.
> > > The network doesn't have a dhcp server (I prefer if it's possible to do it
> > > without one) and the network card is only supported with newer kernels
> > > (2.6.28-rc).
> > >
> > > Is there a way to do it through grub or do I need to setup a minimal system
> > > and boot from it?
> > >
> > > Any pointers on how to set this up?
> > PXE boot seems like what you want, where the client's NIC requests 
> > the boot files from the server.
> >
> > Or am I misunderstanding your questions?
>
> Yes, theoretically that is what I want, but if I'm not mistaken PXE boot is
> dependent on a dhcp server giving the machine an IP and declaring that it has
> a boot image to provide, or am I wrong.
>
> I want to give the ip as an option and use a given nfs server as a root, not
> resolve these values at run time

Hmmm, yes, you're right.  There's got to be a way, though, using 
bootp, MAC address and tftp, since that's how we did it 10 years ago 
with X Terminals.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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