Etherboot is deprecated in favor of gPXE, from the same team. Also, the nbi.img images that are used by the older etherboot versions have some problems in Ubuntu Karmic. IMHO, gPXE is the way to go.
Download the "Linux Kernel (SYSLINUX/GRUB/LILO) Loadable Image .lkrn" from the following site: http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.9/contrib/rom-o-matic/ Keep "all-drivers" as the selected NIC type, and just put a grub entry for that kernel ("linux16" is needed for grub2). If you're looking to directly load the LTSP kernel because of DHCP-related problems instead, then there are other ways to do it... > --- On Wed, 12/2/09, ltsp-disc...@greatlakedata.com > <ltsp-disc...@greatlakedata.com> wrote: > > > From: ltsp-disc...@greatlakedata.com <ltsp-disc...@greatlakedata.com> > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp via grub.conf > > To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:15 PM > > i want to boot an ltsp kernel from an > > existing client machine grub.conf. > > i can find the ltsp kernel and initrd on the server and > > copy them to the client HD. > > what's obscure is how to specify root= et al. > > can anyone shoot me a guide for this? > > tia, > > gregwm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
