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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Friday, October 29, 2004 6:35:52 pm | by MukeshAgrawal | Revert |
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Note, that the default file is the the default configuration file for the client. PXE actually searches first of all for its IP address printed in hexadecimal, then drops a byte off, and continues looking for this until it has to give up and use the default file. This lets you add a config file for each host you boot via PXE.
This pxe config file sets the default boot option to nfs. It tells it to boot the kernel 'netboot-kernel' which it gets via tftp. It appends the specified kernel options to the kernel. These options are all, as far as I can tell, ABSOLUTELY required.
+Note that you can specify NFS mount options via the nfsroot parameter. Simply append then after the root dir. The syntax is nfsroot=[[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[[,<nfs-options>]. You will need this, for example, to tell the client to mount the filesystem using NFS v3. (You'll want this if the client needs to work with large files -- NFSv2, the default for Linux clients, has a 2GB filesize limit.) In that case, the correct option is "v3".
! Set up NFS
You'll need to add something like the following lines to /etc/exports
