Using iBFT in a RHEL initrd

"Wagnell, Joseph M (IS)" <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:25:08 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,
I successfully been using gPXE to sanboot windows xp, 2003, and RHEL 5.x
clients for several months. Thanks for a great project and an awesome
community.

Using san-boot-conf in the windows environment works great and I can
change ethernet ports (my client hardware has four adapters) and still
boot without a problem. However, RH hard codes the MAC address (and IP's
and LUN, etc) into the initrd image, which forces a manual edit of the
init script to change the boot adapter. There is one page on the wiki
which briefly discusses uses iBFT in an initrd image
(http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/ibft) but the code on sourceforge
downloads an invalid archive. 

Google indicates that using iBFT is possible, but nobody gives any
examples or details the required modules to include in the initrd image.
Any help to point me in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated. 

Thanks again for a great project. 

Joe

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