Ralph Seichter wrote:
I need to do custom installations of SuSE Linux 8.2 on industry box computers without Floppy or CDROM, using only the PXE network boot support provided by the BIOS and GRUB.
The toughest part seems to be to get the initial ramdisk (initrd) populated and running, and I can't seem to find enough valid information on this subject. I have adapted /sbin/mk_initrd, but I'm probably doing something wrong there.
you dont need to build the initrd by yourself. Its already on the CDs in /boot/loader/, unless of course you are talking about something completly different :-) take the kernel and the initrd from there and thats all what you need for pxe and netbooting, nothing else.
I am not quite sure if this mailing list is the right place to ask for help regarding ramdisk usage. If it is not, please point me to the right list.
This list also deals with those things needed for bootstraping. Anas
Thank you.