29 Sep
2017
29 Sep
'17
7:02 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
I am guessing dhcp and / or bootp, combined with tftp for kernel
image, and NFS for root.
I run linux workstations and a few supercomputers by PXE booting via
DHCP, serving a kernel and initrd over tftp, then having init download a
rootfs tarball, which gets extracted to a ramdisk. switch_root(8) makes
it easy. xCAT automates it.
khm