[syslinux] memdisk and winPE diskless boot

Velu Erwan erwan at seanodes.com
Sun Mar 20 03:16:13 PST 2005


Sasha M a écrit :

>Hi,
>
>I am working on the diskless booting over Infiniband networks. At the moment
>we have created and implemented architecture which allow diskless booting
>of Linux nodes on x86, x86_64 and Itanium platforms. 
>
>The system works by booting first small custom made Linux kernel of the
>Infiniband adapter ROM. The kernel has enough of infiniband stack to setup
>TCP/IP networking over infiniband. Then it simulates PXElinux boot process.
>
>After it fetches production kernel image and ramdisk, the system is booted
>into that kernel via kexec like mechanism. 
>  
>
Will you publish this work ? I mean many people will be interested in 
such stuff :)




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