Re: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

Kip Macy wrote:
> > I am using Grub 0.95 with an UNDI patch I found somewhere, that means I
> > can PXE-boot from some (at least e1000) network adapters not directly
> > supported by Grub.
>
> Thanks. Do you know offhand if that supports the tg3 chip?
No, sorry I don't. If you can't get the tg3 working another option is to 
drop in an eepro100 or old 3com just for use with Grub.
> > I would recommend NFS for debug-rootfs, as with iSCSI you still have a
> > chance of corrupting the fs image.
> Do you export a separate mount point to each client, or do you have
> something like cluster NFS?
What I usually do for debugging is share the same mount point, and then 
mount /tmp and other similar stuff from a ramdisk formatted at boot, or 
from tmpfs.
Jacob

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