Re: [gentoo-server] Pure-initramfs boot

[Karl Holz <karlg@rogers.com>]

I would like to try to build something like that for ppc and net  
booting it, I have a lot of ram too

Peter where you thinking of writing a script to build the root system?

If you want to start a project I'm down, I know bash, perl and php.

Peace,

Karl


On 20-Oct-08, at 20:49, "Peter Abrahamsen" <rainhead@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got the crazy idea to boot my servers purely from netboot with  
> their root filesystems being initramfs archives coming from tftp on  
> pxeboot.
>
> Is this reasonable? I tried just passing a cpio of my desired root  
> partition as the initrd option, but it ended up using my hdd as  
> root, I think because my initramfs didn't have a file at /init.  
> Everyone else seems to just use their initramfs in order to boot  
> something else, like nfs, but I've got plenty of RAM and don't  
> really want to introduce the additional complexity and latency of NFS.
>
> Anyone done anything like that?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter