[Soekris] boot linux kernel from PXE

Jun Sun jsun at junsun.net
Sat Nov 2 23:24:34 UTC 2002


Never mind.  I actually failed in step 1.

I now got it all working fine now.  If anybody is interested, I can
post it here in the mailing list.

Jun

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> I have tried with pxelinux, which is linux loader through PXE-capable
> ethernet card.  
> 
> The first step is to get an IP address and tftp pxelinux image to
> the board.  This goes well.  pxelinux is downloaded and starts running.
> 
> The second step is pxelinux sending out another tftp requests.  This
> failed.  In fact, there is no tftp request coming from the box.
> 
> Has anybody else tried this before?
> 
> Jun
> 
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:09:26AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anybody tried to boot a linux kernel through PXE boot?
> > Can you share with me the DHCP server config?
> > 
> > I like to setup this way, plus NFS root fs, in order to get
> > q convenient development environment.
> > 
> > Jun
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