(Cc: list for posterity) Nice, thanks!
I should have waited to send the message - I made a /init that exec's /sbin/init (maybe I can just symlink them?), removed any auto lines from /etc/fstab, and it worked like a charm. This is flippin' sweet. I can netboot into a re-imager, netboot into a rescue system, netboot into a BIOS updater (if I dare), netboot into a security thingie, or netboot a diskless webhead, just by changing a symlink and rebooting the target system (with IPMI if necessary). Thanks for the pointer to ThinStation, by the way, that looks really instructional, a cool project, and maybe useful at home. Cheers, Peter On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I use ThinStation on ~50 thin client PC's which operates as you describe. > > Stan > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Peter Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I got the crazy idea to boot my servers purely from netboot with their >> root filesystems being initramfs archives coming from tftp on pxeboot. >> >> Is this reasonable? I tried just passing a cpio of my desired root >> partition as the initrd option, but it ended up using my hdd as root, I >> think because my initramfs didn't have a file at /init. Everyone else seems >> to just use their initramfs in order to boot something else, like nfs, but >> I've got plenty of RAM and don't really want to introduce the additional >> complexity and latency of NFS. >> >> Anyone done anything like that? >> >> Thanks, >> Peter >> > >
