Remote boot w. PXE etc.
Thomas R Boehme
mail at thomas-boehme.de
Thu May 17 12:43:55 PDT 2001
Hi,
I would recommend using syslinux for the PXE remote boot process
It's a lot easier and works reliable for 32 nodes in our cluster.
It also gives you the possibility to configure every node independently.
You can find it at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
Just make sure you follow the pxelinux.doc file in the archive. The most
important part is getting the right tftp-server (we use tftp-hpa, see the
docs).
Hope that helps,
Thommy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jakob Østergaard [mailto:jakob at unthought.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:20 PM
To: Beowulf Mailing List
Subject: Remote boot w. PXE etc.
Hello people !
I've been trying to get some nodes booting over PXE. I want the machines to
load the kernel over the network and only use local disk for /tmp and swap.
(I
may even do that over the network as well)
I tried the Intel PXE server from RedHat 7.[01], and had *some* success.
Meaning, I can get the basic configuration to work, but I cannot configure
the
PXE server so that each node (identified by MAC or IP) gets it's own
configuration. This is a requirement for my setup. I simply cannot find
documentation.
I looked at bpbatch as recommended in the remote-boot HOWTO, but got annoyed
because they have a license that I have a hard time agreeing with, and
there's
no RPM etc. etc. Lazyness, pride and stubbornness is a great combo ;)
Does anyone have docs for the Intel PXE server that's included with RedHat,
or
did you have success booting using some other PXE package, or something
entirely different ?
Thanks,
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