Nate Carlson wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Clay Fandre wrote: > > Anyone have experience booting diskless clients? I'm actual get it to > > boot the kernel and it says it mounts the filesystem, but complains it > > can't load init. I've tried /bin/sh with no luck. The server logs say > > the client mounts the nfsroot just fine, but it still can't load init. > > Any ideas? > > Useing PXELinux, right? > > You have /dev/ in your nfs root, right? > > doing something like this in the pxelinux.cfg/ipaddr file, right? > > DEFAULT kernel > APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=ip.of.nfs.srv:/path/to/mount:ip=<localip>:<nfsip>:<defroute>:<subnetmask>:hostname > DISPLAY message.txt > PROMPT 1 > TIMEOUT 50 > I found out some more details. It's a ThinkNIC that they're trying to network boot. What exactly is PXELinux? We created a custom kernel and ROOT-NFS dir structure. We're using bpbatch to load the kernel. We have the entire filesystem created under /tftpboot. What does the display option do?