[mythtv-users] PXE Network Boot

Mike Isely isely at isely.net
Thu Mar 13 20:07:42 UTC 2008


On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Mitch Gore wrote:

> >  > > The reason is that the adapter has already been brought up. If you
> >  > > take it down, you've lost your connection to the filesystem.
> >  > >
> >
> >  The above is exactly right - for a Debian system.  Possibly also for any
> >  Debian-derived system (e.g. ubuntu).  But Fedora sets up networking
> >  differently than this.
> >
> >  For Debian users, you can also put this into /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> >   auto eth0
> >   iface eth0 inet manual
> >
> >  That essentially changes eth0 operation into a noop.  The reason this
> >  might be desirable over simply omitting eth0 is that other parts of the
> >  Debian boot process might depend on eth0 actually being up'ed first -
> >  triggering the various nearby if-up.d scripts.  I hit this problem when
> >  trying to set up another NFS client mount.
> >
> >  I've been writing up a long page describing all the fun I've had in
> >  setting up diskless PXE-booted read-only NFS-rooted frontends.  The
> >  writeup isn't finished, but the trick above is in there.  The URL for
> >  the page is here:
> >
> >  http://www.isely.net/mythtv_setup.html
> >
> >   -Mike
> >
> 
> 
> No idea on Fedora tho?
> 

Nope, sorry.  I've been a Debian user for 12 years.  And while I messed 
with FC5 for a short while, but I'm far too rusty to be helpful there 
:-(

  -Mike


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