My goal is to repack stage2.img into initrd.img and have it detected without it asking for a seperate location during pxe boot. I want this so I can run "linux rescue" without FTP, HTTP, NFS.
I know that initrd.img checks the cdrom for stage2 inside /images/

This would make a great linux password reset tool for admins to add to PXE menus hosted from a windows server.

Can anyone help me figure out the loader process and howto change the detected location of stage2.img inside initrd in pxe ram?


Please Help

hi

why not get rid of windows server software ...for a start?

2) I can not tell from your post count...but have you ever re-mastered a linux cd of any kind before?

3) also how about a link to the distro you are referring to for the cd image?

More info:

1) Windows2003r2 using 3com TFTP (sorry just the way it is)
3com tftp--> pxelinux --> initrd.img (using menu of course)

2) I have made a similiar disk with KNOPPIX for Damn Small Linux using a great tutorial I found.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-26-15960-0.html

3) rhel-server-5.4-i386-dvd.iso (redhat.com via account only)
files I am trying to use:
/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
/images/stage2.img

The tutorial for DSL leads me to think something similiar for Red Hat is possible, I just need some real help. Or if someone has a turorial that would be awesome. I don't want to use a kickstart via fixed IP, or NFS/HTTP/FTP. (I already can do that) I just need this for a pxe "linux rescue" via only TFTP (aka 1 bigger initrd.img)

don't know but see if you like this link?

http://grml.org/terminalserver/

Thanks for the link.. I will try it out right now.

any other ideas how to easily achieve a "linux rescue" via pxe

This would be a great problem for a linux guru to help me solve. None of the links so far relate to packing stage1 and initrd together. I appreciate the input so for, but I still need help solving this problem.

http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/...er-initrd.html

gunzip -c --suffix '.img' /boot/initrd-<version>.img | cpio -i
>
> to unpack the file, and
>
> find . -print | cpio -c -o | gzip -c9 >/path/of/new/initrd

may help you unpack and repack an initrd

edit

I have re-looked at your post. I think you already know howto unpack? if you know there is some folder called /images
or is it that pxe calls a script that looks at a folder outside the intrd called /images?

I have unpacked the initrd.img and found it contains "loader" and "init" inside the /etc folder. Inside these compiled files is the location lookup for stage2.img I cannot decompile the 2 files. Simply creating a /images folder inside the initrd.img subsystem did not work. Any clues?

I can offer no guarantee but a link to actual distro you are using might help others see what you mean.

leaping ahead..if no one helps....

2) alternative ??
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/ he has a PXE distro
and docs on how to remaster

For the last time AUS9... I am not giving you a link to the distro. Stop asking. It is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (or any RHEL 4+)
I do not want any advise pointing me to any other "distro." All info is in my previous posts. Aus9 please do not "help" me anymore I do not want wild goose chases just 1 RHEL solution from someone else.

consider reporting your first post to a moderator.

you have my permission to get entire post deleted...so you start a fresh post and will appear in zero replies....and I can assure you I will not reply...is the best I can do

but the moderator is the only one who can kill this post and all thread all delete all replies ok

cheerio