On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Cameron Bergh wrote:
> Pardon me if this has been asked before, but i have looked
> everywhere and i
> have no idea how to write this .zhd file that the rom-o-matic has
> given me.
It's nice of you to write. The conversation is pleasant. Here's how
I found an answer:
Google
etherboot .zhd
Check out the 2nd link:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
forum_id=6402&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200508
See that that relevant message there (the one with .zhd in it) quotes
a message from the previous month:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12512726
This method erases a partition, and would thus not be suitable for
all situations. If you have a hard drive, and you have (or are
willing to put) a filesystem on it, you may want to consider .zlilo
files, and a kernel bootloader, such as grub or lilo. For example:
Note that there are other ways to load Etherboot from a hard disk.
One such way is to use a .zlilo file, and have grub or lilo load it.
Such as:
http://www.wizzy.org.za/article/articlestatic/14/1/2/
or
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html
Let us know how things go.
Marty
> I am building an oil immersed beowulf cluster out of random old
> computers
> with 256MB flash hard drives, I was hoping to have etherboot load
> from the
> hard drives because some of the mobo's dont support PXE booting and
> i dont
> want to go buy a bunch of EEPROMS to flash.
>
> what do i use to write a ZHD file? do these things even work?
>
> Thanks!
> -Cameron Bergh
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