From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ks6KS-0003or-GR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA366E03A4; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp111.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp111.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62D11E03A4 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 65340 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2008 01:46:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-Id:From:To:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References:X-Mailer; b=RBlUv2oBWpriZ7IV9qaIddHla/TKavyG2CezRWAYhOygS0yjxwSAm6OEjFFO3B6oi4FGiIsgECcNieq6Za7VpCPcW2WiorQYxdEa4qCuXzYb3pU7TMl/9g2/QVlBjYjZWtwYuFzBL5VDH+l+HIEu3aau2jE8cJIVA/FJUQ1gS1A= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.140.210.84?) (karlg@24.114.233.25 with plain) by smtp111.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2008 01:46:32 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: xisToiMVM1lhxmBBkEZYkadT_VYbTioiuz4nOZUNFQxZ3x_AybKfGcw4THIBiusIZw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-Id: <92E0B436-4E13-4DA8-908F-CBC321725177@rogers.com> From: Karl Holz To: "gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org" In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5F136) Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Pure-initramfs boot Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:44:49 -0400 References: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (5F136) X-Archives-Salt: f6ecdb67-4557-4e3d-9e03-aeecc8aac099 X-Archives-Hash: c1807058a45159947fcd0822fb073e8b 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" 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