Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel based on something machine dependent, for

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread russell
On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ville Valkonen
On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Renzo Fabriek
On Saturday 08 September 2012 15:11:07 Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 23:14, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: On 09/08/12 03:34, Ville Valkonen wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:08, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately.

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Andrew Dalgleish
On 8/09/2012 6:14 AM, russell wrote: ... my intention is to hack boot.c(my guess, at this point I am still just looking at source) to check for and use some sort of global kernel macaddress var pxeboot claims to set. ... I played with a similar patch from here many years ago:

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 13:14, russell wrote: can be configured via boot.conf but there is no way to specify a kernel based on the machine actually booting, can only hard code the kernel image in. and even if I kept different pxeboot binarys they would still use the same boot.conf when

Re: pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
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pxeboot, machine dependent kernel

2012-09-07 Thread russell
I have doing quite a lot of netbooting lately. However I can not figure out how to configure a specific machine to use a specific kernel. Is there a way for pxeboot to load a kernel based on something machine dependent, for example, mac address? If not, I have been digging around in