On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 21:15 -0500, Tim Holloway wrote: > > Turns out that the RealTek drivers have to be manually built from source > for each new kernel version. This is a real deal breaker for PXE.
Re-thinking about this I do not see where this would be a problem. When the kernel is passed via PXE it knows nothing about networking or anything till loaded. All you need is a initrd/initramfs with the drivers for the network card. Then you can proceed with booting a diskless system. Its really no different than my problem of doing bonding and bridging before doing mounting a nfsroot for obvious reasons. But I could just the same load kernel modules, for network, bond, bridge, etc. All you need is for the pxe boot loader to have support for RealTek chipset your using. From there its no different than anything else really, and initrds have long been around. Some distros always boot with them, though I have not used them for years. Till my recent need for initramfs, which is a bit different than initrd. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
