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2009 Feb 12
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Problem with PXEBOOT of diskless client -- fails to mount RAMDISK
...S 5.2.
I have everything working under CentOS 4.7. This is an adaptation of
the (somewhat old) Diskless Linux with PXE HOWTO by Gerd v. Egidy,
originally at the URL
http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/, which is now defunt
(there is a mirror of it at
http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/2389/showart_82438.html).
What I am doing is using a RAMDISK to mount a NFS exported (read-only)
root file system and copying part of it to a RAMDISK root file system,
all of this after configuring the clients ethernet (via DHCP) and
loading the NFS modules. The RAMDISK uses a statically built BusyBox
for all of i...