[finnix] netbooting finnix eth0 problem

[Ryan Finnie]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Ronald Zijlstra<ronald at okepc.nl> wrote:
> But i have run into a problem. According to the forum, Finnix should be
> able to 'netboot'  with tftp, nfs and pxelinux. I've been trying and all
> is setup, but at a certain point de initrd drops me to a shell, because
> it cannot find eth0.

The main initrd/minirt does not include any ethernet drivers, and
instead focuses on including ATA/SATA/SCSI/etc modules.  The
"finnix-netboot-server" script will (among other things) generate a
minirt at /var/lib/tftpboot/finnix/minirt_net that includes all
ethernet drivers for the booted Finnix kernel.  In fact, if you want
to have a permanent netboot server, you can just run
finnix-netboot-server and then use the contents of
/var/lib/tftpboot/finnix to start from.

RF