Apparently I've killed a brain cell. At any rate:
I've got a PC that I want to try a RedHat 9 install on.
It doesn't have a floppy or CD on it. It does have
a BOOTROM with etherboot on it.
It seems like in the past I did something like:
- Set up dhcpd.conf to supply a kernel name and some
parameters:
group {
use-host-decl-names on;
option root-path "192.168.164.47:/distros/shrike";
filename "/rh-netinstall/vmlinuz.nb";
host wildeb {fixed-address wildeb;hardware ethernet 00:40:05:34:c6:f9;}
}
- Setup tftp
- Create a tagged image from the kernel and initrd.img supplied by redhat in the
images/pxeboot
mkelf-linux --rootdir=rom vmlinuz initrd.img >/tftpboot/rh-netinstall/vmlinuz.nb
- Copy the distro cds to a directory (/distros/shrike)
- Setup nfs to export /distros/shrike
At this point I reboot the PC, it loads vmlinuz.nb and stops with the message:
Top of ramdisk is 0x07c000000
Ramdisk at 0x796b000, size 0x00295000
I seem to remember that I need either more parameters passed via DHCP or
mkelf, but I can't remember what, and my bash history doesn't seem to go
back more than about a month (I need it to go back about 3 years).
Hep me
Kent
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