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Title: diskless booting through grub
Post by: jonsnipes on January 08, 2008, 06:14:18 pm

i came across somewhere that it is possible to set grub up to diskless boot... does anyone have any experience doing so with lmce?  it would save me harddrive space on computers that i want acting as md...  thanks

Title: Re: diskless booting through grub
Post by: ddamron on January 08, 2008, 06:27:07 pm

http://rom-o-matic.net/

That will allow you to make a boot disk, even on floppy... to pxe boot..

Title: Re: diskless booting through grub
Post by: jonsnipes on January 08, 2008, 07:17:19 pm

then what do i do wit that disk image??  how do i tell grub to boot from that?  is that  grub only booted when the disk is in the drive?  is there a way to make it constant on an existing grub setup??

Title: Re: diskless booting through grub
Post by: Zaerc on January 08, 2008, 07:36:09 pm

Another way is with a special version of GRUB, as described in the wiki: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/GRUB_PXE

Title: Re: diskless booting through grub
Post by: jonsnipes on January 08, 2008, 08:15:39 pm

exaccly what i was looking for...  thanks

Title: Re: diskless booting through grub
Post by: ddamron on January 09, 2008, 06:38:07 am

That ROM o Matic site, creates BOOTABLE images...

You don't need GRUB.

HTH,

Dan