Nate Carlson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Clay Fandre wrote:
> > Anyone have experience booting diskless clients? I'm actual get it to
> > boot the kernel and it says it mounts the filesystem, but complains it
> > can't load init. I've tried /bin/sh with no luck. The server logs say
> > the client mounts the nfsroot just fine, but it still can't load init.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Useing PXELinux, right?
> 
> You have /dev/ in your nfs root, right?
> 
> doing something like this in the pxelinux.cfg/ipaddr file, right?
> 
> DEFAULT kernel
> APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=ip.of.nfs.srv:/path/to/mount:ip=<localip>:<nfsip>:<defroute>:<subnetmask>:hostname
> DISPLAY message.txt
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 50
> 

I found out some more details. It's a ThinkNIC that they're trying to
network boot. What exactly is PXELinux? We created a custom kernel and
ROOT-NFS dir structure. We're using bpbatch to load the kernel. We have
the entire filesystem created under /tftpboot. What does the display
option do?