答复: 答复: FILO 0.4 [PMX:#]

[YhLu]

You must prepare 1024 IDE flash one by one at the beginning. It took one
week to get it done?

YH

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: ron minnich [mailto:[e-mail]] 
发送时间: 2004年4月6日 11:19
收件人: YhLu
抄送: Eric W. Biederman; Takeshi Sone; [e-mail]
主题: Re: 答复: FILO 0.4 [PMX:#]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
> So you must use filo as normal payload and Etherboot as fallback payload.

we can't use etherboot on Pink anyway for network boots. There is no 
ethernet on Pink. 1024 nodes with no Ethernet.

instead, using Filo, we have normal and fallback kernel images on the 
ext-2 formatted IDE FLASH.

ron
> So we can use tg3--filo.zelf instead of tg3--ide_disk.zelf.

no need here.

ron

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote:
> You must prepare 1024 IDE flash one by one at the beginning. It took one
> week to get it done?

30 seconds to update. The initial case is hard though :-)

Linux Networx (Eric, really) set it all up before Pink arrived.

ron