For slave nodes, this seems to fit the bill. With some debugging, it should be
able to directly fetch a stage 2 boot image. Right now, it works great fetching
the stage 1 boot.
For the server situation, I'm not sure what is going to be the best solution
when DoC isn't available (due to PLCC flash socket or whatever). At the least,
the netboot hacks allowed me to get an 810LMR up and running. A simple netboot
is nice, but not always appropriate.
G'day,
sjames
Quoting "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Steven James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Since motherboards seem to be moving to PLCC flash lately, I needed
> an
> > alternative to DoC for Scyld clusters.
> >
> > I have added rarp, tftp and the sis900 driver from Etherboot into
> LinuxBIOS as a
> >
> > useful fallback. The total size is < 64K and works well out of the
> regular flash
> >
> > parts.
> >
> > I will put together context diffs over the weekend.
> >
> > Next week, I hope to incorperate TIARA's ide driver to load the kernel
> and
> > initrd from a raw partition on a flashdisk.
>
> Have you put this together?
>
> I'm not certain if this is the right approach long term, but looking
> at your code would certainly be interesting.
>
> Eric
>
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