On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:26:29PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Ben Stoltz wrote: > > My company needs a flexible boot environment that would allow us to > > boot any x86 OS with any boot device. The boot device would be a > > disk on the SAN, not a local disk, and it could be different on > > every boot. > > > > I believe that the right way to do this is to boot over the net first, get > > the parameters for the particular session (OS, boot device, etc.), then load > > the OS from the specified boot device and transfer control. > > we can do this today. We mostly do it now with the bproc stuff, in which > the flash-based kernel contacts a control node, gets boot parameters and > then boots a kernel based on those parameters. It's easy.
Note that he said "any x86 OS". There's another OS that a bunch of people seem to use, but the name escapes me at the moment :)
