use loader to load kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in an ext2 filesystem

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jan 26 10:00:37 PST 2005


In the last episode (Jan 26), Kamal R. Prasad said:
> Is it possible to load the loader on redboot, then
> have the loader tftp the kernel over ethernet?

There is a PXE version of the loader (pxeboot) that will load a kernel
from tftp or nfs, but it requires a dhcp server to get the server's IP
and its kernel filename from.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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