On 2/26/19 12:56 PM, David Mathog wrote:
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What I really need is a version of Boel which will chroot into a Centos 7 system. Anybody have one? Failing that, is there another small PXE bootable linux distro, more or less like Boel but with a kernel near 3.10, with an initrd which loads a target script (by nodename) into busybox and runs it?
I've never used system imager or Boel, so I can't necessarily comment on how to fix that. I can point out though, that the project I built (https://github.com/joelandman/nyble) turns your standard CentOS7, Debian9, or Ubuntu18.04 distro into a PXE (or USB or local disk) bootable RAMdisk mounted system. I used this (previous versions of this) at Scalable Informatics to boot/run infrastructure we shipped.
You can hand the system a boot time argument on a script to run after it comes up. I used boot options of
root=ram rootfstype=ramdisk runscript=http://path/to/simple/shell/script.sh simplenet=1 verbose console=ttyS1,115200n8
I do need to update the readme file on that as it is out of date. You can see all the boot options in the https://github.com/joelandman/nyble/blob/master/nyble-ramboot-init.d file, of the form 'grep -q option= /proc/cmdline).
I use this for doing all my booting of immutable images. Just need the kernel, and the initramfs. I can build one for you if you want, and you can play with it.
-- Joe Landman e: joe.land...@gmail.com t: @hpcjoe w: https://scalability.org g: https://github.com/joelandman l: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelandman _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
