Diskless boot

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Sep 30 21:45:59 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:37:55PM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> This is an example. I've got an NFS root copy of a yum upgraded core 1
> machine, but no suitable kernel to boot it.

Thats fine, so just install one or build one.

> image, cant create the machine without that kernel - with yum i cant
> downgrade the kernel on the machine im using to build initrd back to the
> older one I need to make the system.map .....

Build kernel
make modules_install
cp kernel into tftpboot
mkinitrd into the tftpboot
mv /lib/modules dir into the NFS image

Same as any other build for another box really

Alan




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