Hi Matt, On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 03:37 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Bill Maas wrote: > > > (b) set up an NFS boot server, boot the box off the NFS root, and again > > try SSH. In this case reconfiguration will only require a reboot of > > the Soekris box. The drawback is that you may get to see numerous > > nondescript error messages from NFS before you get it all right, > > each of which may take a day or more to fix (really!). > > How about configuring to PXEboot, which uses DHCP & tftp to grab a boot > image, to boot something like RIPlinux. Adding in trying to use NFS for a > root filesystem really isn't necessary and a lot more work. Just run > straight out of the initrd.
Hadn't even thought of that because I never do it that way, but definitely worth trying. Still, nothing beats an NFS boot when it comes to on-the-spot configuration/updating. It's also quite useful for quickly grabbing a dmesg and other config info off a box. And once set up properly (...), it tends to work fine, most of the time;) Bill > -- Matt > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
