[Voyage-linux] Alix 3d2 rescue system

[Teco Boot]

You can boot from CF with grub & kernel & initrd & NFS-server. 
With some luck, no console is needed.
After booting, CF is free.
On 0.8.0, I use the following lines in menu.lst:

root    (hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-voyage boot=live netboot=nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.1:/home/voyage-0.8.0 live-getty noautologin console=ttyS0,9600n8
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-voyage-live

I use a copy of initrd from the 0.8.0 live image. Updating the tarball initrd is also an option, then the same initrd file can be used for normal operation and netboot. But first busybox (and others?) must be instaled and initrd be updated. Busybox is a little to big to include in tarball (Punky?).

Teco

Op 2 dec. 2011, om 15:44 heeft Punky Tse het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Ernesto,
> 
> Perhaps PXEBoot is your only option.
> 
> Regards,
> Punky
> 
> On 12/2/2011 7:48 PM, Ernesto Sanchez wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a rescue system for Alix 3D2, the original idea is to boot from a usb-stick and restore the file system of the compact flash burn the image again. Unfortunately TinyBIOS not support booting from USB devices, so I'm trying to do it from the grub installed on compact flash, I thought it could use the fallback option of grub ever tried making usb boot first and then the compact flash the problem is that grub does not detect the usb-stick.
>> 
>> I have also tried to copy the kernel and initrd to the compact fash keeping the root filesystem on / dev/sda1 and start correctly when the usb-stick is plugged in but not plugged when booting the kernel with a small shell saying no could not find the file system.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to implement this system?
>> 
>> Thank you very much.
>> 
> 
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