Hello I use ipxe now for several weeks to boot some thinstation thinclients over the network. Via http.. works great.. thanks for such a good tool. I still have one wish 8-)..
Is there a way to boot alternative initrd images depending on the hardware of the client.. i have some clients which have a nvidia gpu and others do have ati.. if i embed both dirvers my initrd goes up to 340MB.. with one driver i have only 210 MB.. One way would be to use a pcibus query to get the types.. is this possible with ipxe ? The other way would be to use a "better" php script to query a hardware inventory database and return the right initrd..i would prefer the first if possible so no more backend hacks are needed. At the moment my script is simple .. ---- #!ipxe ifstat ifopen show ip show hostname kernel http://bootserver.de/ts5.1dev/vmlinuz.thin51devstable2 video=uvesafb:1024x768-32,mtrr:0,ywrap splash=verbose,theme:default console=tty1 loglevel=3 LM=3 initrd http://bootserver.de/ts5.1dev/initrd.thin51devstable2 boot ----- Lspci ---- tc10257:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Caicos [Radeon HD 7400 Series] 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series] 02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289 (rev 01) 02:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0a) 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) ---- Any advice would be great. Thanks roman _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
