Syslinux - Mar 2002 - PXE: Some basic questions

First of all it works great!!  I have my 3Com cards booting off the network
and it grabs the linux kernel just fine.  My next problem is more of me not
understanding the rules.

Is the /tftpboot directory just like /?  My though was to take a Linux
rescue disk that had some imaging tools and then just put the whole thing in
/tftpboot and tell it to boot the kernel in that directory.  But I always
get "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs"

So my question then is how to I get the linux files system over?

Any help would be appreciated.

Keith

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:04:35AM -0700, Keith Pettit
wrote:
> First of all it works great!!  I have my 3Com cards booting off the network
> and it grabs the linux kernel just fine.  My next problem is more of me not
> understanding the rules.
> 
> Is the /tftpboot directory just like /?  My though was to take a Linux
> rescue disk that had some imaging tools and then just put the whole thing
in
> /tftpboot and tell it to boot the kernel in that directory.  But I always
> get "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs"
TFTP isn't a filesystemi, it's (merely) a protocol. I recommend the
Diskless-Root-NFS-HOWTO if you don't want to have an initial ramdisk. works
fine here for some months now.

You'll find it at:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO.html

grtz, Tijn

-- 
 5:43PM  up 23 days,  6:59, 4 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.08, 0.07