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From: "Peter Abrahamsen" <rainhead@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-server] Pure-initramfs boot
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:49:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3171c650810201749i1f3b6799s134fde1259dcf0fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21  0:49 Peter Abrahamsen [this message]
     [not found] ` <2b539210810201801w7904a2fw5dc3e07a9ff093ff@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-21  1:41   ` [gentoo-server] Pure-initramfs boot Peter Abrahamsen
2008-10-21  1:44 ` Karl Holz
2008-10-21  2:03   ` Peter Abrahamsen

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