On Tuesday 21 October 2003 22:39, you wrote: > Hello, ... > > With fai 2.3.1 (the one in Woody) I succeeded building the nfsroot on > PowerPC. I had to patch make-fai-nfsroot a little but not too bad. And I > since I thought task task_partition() would use fdisk (which isn't > available on ppc, but it uses sfdisk which is), I decided not to give it a > try and used a hook instead (and so I did the partitioning manually). > > Right now I'm giving FAI 2.5.1 a try on ppc. The results will be published > here ;-)
Thank you for trying the PPC version and for the patches you'll deliver. I've got another question concerning the boot sequence and perhaps you'll have a simple answer: FAI is currently based on PXELINUX which is Intel specific. But what can I use to boot my PowerPC via network together with FAI? - Without loosing PXELINUX' server side configuration for kernel parameters etc ...? What alternative do you see when I use a simple on-board BOOTP loader which only gets the configuration avaliable via DHCP? One idea I have: E.g. a two level boot with a simple mini-linux via DHCP first. The mini-linux can simulate the PXELINUX config stuff by downloading some config via tftp and then reboot with a new downloaded kernel. - Reasonable? -- Best Regards - Peter
