Hi,

I was wondering if someone would an insightful comment.

 From reading past posts I managed to get a node to boot from a server
using PXE+DHCP+HTTP


The image resides in /tftpboot and the configuration is
default SL45
serial 0,9600n8
timeout 100
prompt 1

label localboot
  LOCALBOOT 0

label SL45
  kernel SL45-vmlinuz-boot
  append console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1 
initrd=SL45-initrd.img-boot root=/dev/sda1


 the node finds it and installs SL 45
and reboots...  two questions
1) If this was a diskless node.. rebooting would not be helpful so how 
is that installation
done. (I suppose I would need to remove the root=/dev/sda1 but does SL 
installation always
needs to be reboot?)
2) If it installs to the hard disk.. then how can I change the default 
PXE configuration so it performs a localboot the next time. In this case 
while it was powering down I changed the file so the default would be 
localboot .

This did the trick, and the machine started booting from the disk but 
then an error CRC error made the system halt while it was uncompressing 
the linux image (the correct one 2.6.9.55) .
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Aldo


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