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[ts-7000] Re: Netboot the 7300?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Netboot the 7300?
From: "dave_w_hawkins" <>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 23:49:32 -0000
--- In  "Yan Seiner" <> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to netboot the 7300 without an SD card?
> 
> Or, has anyone set up a minimal SD card that uses tftp and nfs for
> kernel and rootfs?
> 

I believe it would be possible if;

1. You ordered your TS-7300 with Flash loaded.

2. That flash came with a bootloader that understood
   TFTP.

For example, U-Boot is used in many projects for a bootloader.
I use it on PowerPC boards to network boot and network mount
filesystems. U-Boot tftps the kernel, and then sets up
the command line argument to the kernel to indicate that
it is using an NFS root.

However, I have no idea whether U-Boot has EP93xx support,
let alone Technologic Systems support. So you'll have to
do a little more research.

I notice in the Technologic docs that they can boot
Linux from Linux. If that works, then just use the SD
card to boot TS-Linux, and then TS-Linux can get your
TFTP kernel and boot into that. Thats probably less work.

Cheers
Dave





 
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