Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:20:10 -0400 |
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On Sep 24, 2007, at 13:32:23, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:37:52PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> But I compile net/* into bzImage. I like netbooting :) > > Isn't it possible to netboot with an initramfs image? I am pretty > sure I have seen some systems do exactly that.
Yeah, I've got Debian boxes that have never *not* netbooted (one Dell Op^?^?Craptiplex box whose BIOS and ACPI sucks so bad it can't even load GRUB/LILO, although Windows somehow works fine). So they boot PXELinux using the PXE boot ROM on the NICs and it loads both a kernel and an initramfs into memory. Kernel is stock Debian and hardly has enough built-in to spit at you, let alone find network/ disks, but it manages to load everything it needs off the automagically-generated initramfs.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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