[Fedora-xen] PXE boot with Xen

[Curtis Doty]

8:41am Curtis Doty said:

> 11:20am Michael DeHaan said:
>
>>  Alexander Todorov wrote:
>> >   Hello,
>> >   Is it possible to create a xen guest than will use PXE boot for initial
>> >   installation?
>> > 
>>
>>  Someone's done something with hacking a wrapper around pygrub to do
>>  something like this, though you might also be interested in "koan" for
>>  automated installs.
>>  This will do basically the same thing and also pull in your preferences
>>  for RAM size and disk file size from the profiles -- so you still get
>>  fully automatic and repeatable
>>  network installs.   Koan is paravirt only at the moment though more virt
>>  types are next up on my list.
>>
>>  http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
>> 
>
> For fully virt, I was able to use an etherboot ROM image. Since it just uses 
> ISOLINUX to load the ROM, make it hdc:cdrom with boot=d and PXE away!
>

Better yet, the boot=n feature that's been in xen-unstable since December 
appeared in rawhide a couple weeks ago. :-) It looks much more elegant as 
the ROM is now included with Xen, avoids the ISOLINUX wrapper, and has 
some timeouts set properly.

../C