Kickstart using USB Flash Drive
Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com
Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com
Thu Apr 29 14:11:16 UTC 2004
I am utilizing the pxeboot image now. When I used the instructions Samuel
sent to create a bootable flash drive, I used the initrd.img from the
pxeboot directory rather than the usual initrd.img.
Thanks for the assistance!
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I believe you need to dd the whole disk image and not just initrd.img.
vmlinuz needs to be located on the first sector to boot.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm still a bit confused though. On the
RH 9 CDs, the pxeboot dir contains initrd.img and vmlinuz. The
initrd.img has all the modules I require. If I 'dd' only the initrd.img
to my USB flash drive, the computer won't boot off it - the computer
boots up as normal. What else do I need to 'dd' to the flash drive?
Where do my syslinux.cfg and boot.msg files go when utilizing the pxe
boot image?
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:40:02PM -0500, Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com
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> I did look into doing PXE installs quite some time ago but it wasn't a
> viable option for my situation. I would rather stick the bootdisk.img
plus
> any additional drivers on my USB flash drive if there is a way to do
that.
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My point wasn't to do pxe installs, it was that the pxe boot image is an
oversized floppy image that is basically a combination of the
bootdisk.img and drvnet.img, stick it on your usb drive and you probably
won't need to do anything else.
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