Re: [BProc] etherboot nodes with linux bios

[Joshua A. <lu...@ln...>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:30:40PM -0600, Rene Salmon wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am very new to Linux Bios and etherboot.  All our nodes have been 
> regular nodes with a pc bios booting via PXE so far.  We just got some new 
> nodes that have linux bios and boot via etherboot and I am not sure how to 
> generate the images to boot these linux bios nodes.
> 
> for the PXE PC Bios nodes I just generated the images with this command
> 
> >beoboot -2 -i -o /tftboot/foo
> 
> and things work fine.
> 
> This of cource does not work for etherboot.  Etherboot complains with 
> "error: not valid image" .
> 
> Can I use beoboot the generate the image that etherboot wants? If yes what 
> options should I use?
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?  maybe to some docs or 
> howtos.

Quick answer:

get mkelfImage from ftp.lnxi.com/pub/mkelfImage/

then use something like the attached script to build your EBI (elf
bootable image), which is the native format that etherboot uses.

Josh