[finnix] Attempting to be sneaky with pxeboot, need help

[Joel Stiller]

If you see my other post I got everything up and running a couple
weeks ago. I too would really like to see this added as a feature in
the next release.
Although I must say, if you don't have a system with at least 512mb of
ram....are you running Finnix on your phone? lol!

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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:29:50 +0100
> From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu>
> Subject: Re: [finnix] Attempting to be sneaky with pxeboot, need help.
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> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
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>> Joel Stiller <joelstiller at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> My goal is to boot finnix over the network, using only the kernel and
>>> the minirt image file.
>>
>>  1. Patch /init in minirt like:
>>
>> --- /tmp/minirt/init   2009-12-13 14:56:29.966203814 +0100
>> +++ init               2009-12-13 21:38:05.542150745 +0100
>> @@ -280,6 +280,11 @@
>>   FINNIX_CLOOP="$USERROOT"
>>   FOUND_FINNIX="yes"
>>
>> +# use it from the initramfs
>> +elif [ -e "$FINNIXFILE" ]; then
>> + FINNIX_CLOOP="$FINNIXFILE"
>> + FOUND_FINNIX=yes
>> +
>>  # ELSE SQUASHROOT SKIP
>>  else
>>
>>  2. Add FINNIX/FINNIX to minirt.
>
> Before this stuff gets lost, I'd like to point out that the multi-initrd
> capability of boot loaders makes the above patch a useful addition to
> stock Finnix as well: those wanting to PXE boot Finnix could create a
> single file secondary initrd passed to pxelinux as initrd=minirt,finnix
> for example (where finnix is a cpio archive containing FINNIX/FINNIX),
> without the need to modify the stock minirt.
>
> I'd be glad to see this added to Finnix, if possible.
>
> This style of booting has the drawback that it requires memory of at
> least twice the size of FINNIX/FINNIX, because the initrd has to be
> unpacked in memory.  Half of this memory is freed right after unpacking,
> but it would be nice to weaken this requirement.  The new memdisk-iso
> feature of Syslinux paired with a memdisk driver for Linux would be the
> best solution I can think of.
> --
> Regards,
> Feri.
>
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