creating personalized kernel to boot with pxe

matters · 02-28-2008, 03:38 PM

Is there a tool for pxe such as mknbi-linux?

I want to prepare my own customized kernel to boot with pxe. Thanks!

Alien Bob · 02-28-2008, 04:04 PM

You can boot any normal kernel with PXE. I boot the standard hugesmp.s kernel for my Slackware installs. It needs no tweaks at all.

Eric

matters · 02-28-2008, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

You can boot any normal kernel with PXE. I boot the standard hugesmp.s kernel for my Slackware installs. It needs no tweaks at all.

Eric

Hi Eric! hugesmp.s dosent have included what i need by default

Thanks!

Alien Bob · 02-28-2008, 04:54 PM

So, build your custom kernel, use that. If you already have built your kernel you can just copy it to your tftpboot directory and reference it in your pxelinux config file.
It's the initrd where all the interesting stuff takes place such as setting up the network so that you can start a NFS/HTTP/FTP install if that is what you want.

Eric

matters · 02-28-2008, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

So, build your custom kernel, use that. If you already have built your kernel you can just copy it to your tftpboot directory and reference it in your pxelinux config file.
It's the initrd where all the interesting stuff takes place such as setting up the network so that you can start a NFS/HTTP/FTP install if that is what you want.

Eric

Ive tried that from the first place, but then i get msg error: too many packages

Thats why i posted the message.