[Voyage-linux] Fixed UGLY HACK on wiki - future PXE boot?

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Leon and all,

I am new to PXE.  If you have some good input for PXE, please add your 
remarks in the wiki page so we could document the knowledge there.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Assaf Gordon for adding 
PXE guide in wiki.  Its quality and comprehensiveness allows to me to 
work on PXE boot from voyage inside VMplayer. 

For the PXE VM image, I would take the Sarge netboot image at first and 
modify the image content a bit afterwards.  Once I get the experience 
and understand the layout of the netboot image, I can rebuild it from 
scratch.  (But who cares?  Once it works, I would forget it intentionally)

If you have wonderful idea, please make use of the wiki 
(wiki.voyage.hk).  It is a good knowledge sharing tool for the 
community.  (I don't like dokuwiki right now, and want to move to 
mediawiki, comments?).

- Punky

Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am totally new here. *Extremely* good to see people who take the 
> 2.6.x kernel to the WRAP board, I was a bit disappointed seeing all 
> those distro's sticking with 2.4.x and was almost convinced to go to 
> pfSense for FreeBSD 6.
>
> Anyway, I noticed the ugly hack on the web site for PXE boot regarding 
> install modules.
>
> I think I have presented a decent solution for it using the 
> INSTALL_MOD_PATH variable, maybe this was already known here but the 
> wiki was outdated?
>
> Furthermore, for PXE the only thing necessary seems to be the 
> integration of the network driver in the kernel (fixed instead of a 
> module) to support booting root from NFS, although it should be able 
> to make to work using a ramdisk as well.
>
>
> What method is being used for future Voyage Linux releases? Kernel 
> autoconfig with NFS root, or a ramdisk of some sort?
>
>
> Also, there is a bug on this page:
>
> http://voyage.hk/mailing-list/
>
> Hover over the link in "To post a message, send mail to 
> voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk" <mailto:voyage-products at list.voyage.hk>
> and you will notice it says voyage-products at ... instead of voyage-linux.
>
> A copy-paste bug it seems.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon.
>
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