PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem
Marc Olzheim
marcolz at stack.nl
Tue Apr 19 12:06:00 PDT 2005
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No
> NFS.
Any reasons for not using NFS ?
> I use i386/5.4RC2/TFTPD/PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT .
> (same pb with a 5.3).
>
> Am I missing something obvious?
I'm not sure. tftp itself is able to handle 32MB+ files, but maybe the
loader isn't.
A workaround, no using NFS, could be to tftp a second filesystem image
on boot and mount that from the root filesystem.
Marc
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