> I also tried to netboot from my existing cpu/auth/file server. The > netboot ROM on the ethernet downloads the kernel but couldn't seem to > find a spot in memory to put it[1], so I grabbed gPXE 0.9.3 from > http://www.etherboot.org/ and built an ISO. The last thing I see there > is "Booting from /386/9pc..." and then the machine reboots. I'm not > sure if this is even getting the whole kernel... last line in > /sys/log/ipboot is:
that went by a bit fast for me. do you mean that you are pxe loading 9pxeload but the bios pxeloader can't find a place for 9pxeload in memory? or that 9pxeload loaded but couldn't load the kernel? the plan 9 kernel can't be pxe loaded directly. it's too big & l.s doesn't handle real mode. - erik
