[mythtv-users] Booting from CF, everything else over NFS

[Stef Coene]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 15:45, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>  > Well, I'm booting from CF and mounting /usr and the MythVideo library
>  > over nfs, but streaming actual TV playback.
>
> I've got an 8MB CF and a CF to IDE adapter.  I've got a machine
> currently running FC3, and it's noisy.  I can't pxeboot the machine, and
> I'd like to get the hard drive out of there for noise reasons.
>
> Is it just a matter of doing a fdisk / mkfs on the CF device, copying
> over /boot, copying the contents of the existing drive over to the NFS
> server and changing /etc/fstab to have the mount point of / to be over NFS?
You have to follow the diskless client guides you can find on the internet, 
except for the part where you load the kernel.  Because you can load the 
kernel from your CF card.  And that's the only thing you have to put on that 
card.  And maybe grub or lilo as a bootloader.

You can tell the kernel where it can find it's root filesystem with this 
parameter:
nfsroot=192.168.7.14:/export/nfs
You have to put this in your lilo or grub config.

Check the bottom of http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html for some links.

Stef