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35 .Nd booting a system over the network with PXE
42 re-installing file systems on a local disk.
43 This file provides a general description of the interactions between
46 When booting a system over the network, there are three
48 .Bl -enum
50 The stage-1 bootstrap, typically PXE built into your Ethernet
51 card, loads a second-stage boot program.
53 The second-stage boot program, typically
65 First, the stage-1 bootstrap loads the stage-2 boot program over
67 The stage-1 bootstrap typically uses
73 to load the file.
74 This file is typically called
83 The stage-2 boot program then loads additional modules and the kernel.
90 .Ic next-server
95 The stage-2 program uses
121 and do not have a custom root file system for the
123 client, the stage-2 boot will load your server's kernel as the kernel for
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134 of two ways, and then proceeds to mount the root file system and start
159 .Bl -bullet
168 scripts work with read-only partitions, as long as root is exported with
170 so that some system files can be accessed.
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175 <ROOT> -ro -maproot=0 -alldirs <list of diskless clients>
176 /usr -ro -alldirs <list of diskless clients>
181 is the mount point on the server of the root partition.
184 can be used to create a shared read-only root partition,
186 (again as read-only) the root directory used by
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221 A properly initialized root partition.
224 can help in creating it, using the server's root partition
261 .Pa /conf/<broadcast-ip> ,
263 .Pa /conf/<machine-ip> .
273 here or you can create a special file which tells the
280 You do this by creating the file
286 For example, the file might contain:
290 Alternatively, if the server contains several independent roots, the file
293 .Dl 10.0.0.1:/usr/diskless/4.7-RELEASE/etc
296 .Pa /usr/diskless/4.7-RELEASE
298 .Pa /usr/diskless/4.8-RELEASE
306 have the actual path of the client's root prepended to them so the file
313 scripts create memory file systems to hold the overridden
315 Only a 5MB partition is created by default, which may not
318 file
323 You then typically provide file-by-file overrides in the
336 You can supply network-specific defaults
344 system as given to it via
362 you might wish to remove unneeded files from the memory file system.
369 file.
373 from the memory file systems.
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393 system.
407 as the switch variable to do machine-specific configuration
437 booting environment relies on memory-backed file systems to
438 support temporary local storage in the event that the root file system
439 is mounted read-only; as such, it is necessary to add the following
479 the root partition, so the startup scripts mount MFS
480 file systems on some locations (e.g.\&