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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