On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Joe Landman <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are some oddities, not the least of which most distributions are > decidedly not built for this. But if you get them to a point where they > think they have a /dev/root and they mount it, life generally gets much > easier rather quickly. > > One of the other cool aspects of our mechanism is that we can pivot to a > hybrid or NFS after fully booting. And if the NFS pivot fails, we can fall > back to our ramboot without a reboot. Its a thing of beauty ... truly ...
Can you explain this in more detail? I currently pxe boot into busybox and then pivot_root to boot up RHEL. it works well, but if it fails, it gets all screwed up and i have to reboot. i'd like to know more about how boot the os and recover back to the pxe image if it fails, that sounds really handy... :) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
