Re: [Etherboot-discuss] How to include the new Linux NIC driver to the PXE image.

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Joyce Yu - System Software wrote:
> I wrote an etherboot NIC driver for our new 10G ethernet product. But I 
> don't have the instruction on how to add the Linux driver for the same 
> product to the PXE boot image, so the system can boot and load the Linux 
> using this new 10G port. I appreciate any information/documentation 
> related to this topic.

You need to make sure that the initrd contains your Linux driver, plus 
scripts to load the module(s), issue DHCP requests, mount the root 
filesystem etc.

Doing this all by hand is extremely non-trivial, but fortunately large 
numbers of prepackaged solutions such as LTSP exist to help you out.

Michael