Re: What are lkrn images? How to use gpxe-devel/src/utils/gensdsk ?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:56 AM, sobtwmxt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:34:58PM -0400, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>>
>> If you're looking for a floppy image that will boot gPXE but also be
>> usable as a regular filesystem, try gpxe.sdsk (requires Syslinux).
>>
>
>  I can see utils/gensdsk in the development tree.  I have no idea how
> to use it.  What are lkrn images?

The gpxe.lkrn image is a bzImage - the format of an x86 Linux kernel.
That means GRUB/SYSLINUX/lilo can load gpxe.lkrn because they know how
to load Linux kernels.

make bin/gpxe.sdsk

I just noticed on that on my system the Mtools version detection is
currently broken.  I will send a fix today.  If you get an error about
your Mtools version, you may want to remove the detection code from
util/gensdsk.

>  As an aside, www.etherboot.org/wiki/staging, doesn't fit
> .git/logs/refs/remotes/.  For example, the wiki shows a staging/sdsk.

The staging process is evolving.  It's about agreeing on a
review/merge workflow that is effective.  Not all branches conform to
the guidelines on the wiki page.

Stefan

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