pxe boot on busybox

[Eial Czerwacki]

On 01/31/2012 01:08 PM, walter harms wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 31.01.2012 12:04, schrieb tovis:
>>> On 01/31/2012 11:41 AM, tovis wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On 01/31/2012 10:52 AM, ralda at gmx.de wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hallo Eial Czerwacki!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a computer that boots busybox, it needs to connect to a
>>>>>>> tftpboot
>>>>>>> server and get the
>>>>>>> boot file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just a note for clarification: You DO NOT BOOT a Busybox system, you
>>>>>> boot a Linux system. That Linux system uses Busybox for it's base set
>>>>>> of commands, which is less than the size of the original
>>>>>> tools/commands
>>>>>> but behave mostly same in it's major operation. As this you do not
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> a special Busybox PXE boot description. Just follow the usual Linux
>>>>>> PXE
>>>>>> boot tutorials out there (there are some in the wild).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Harald
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Harald,
>>>>>
>>>>> I know, I didn't don't said I'm not booting a busybox, at least I
>>>>> didn't
>>>>> meant it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I boot a linux system, using busybox, I wanted to know if I can use
>>>>> busybox to connect to to the tftpboot server and get the boot bin file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eial.
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Eial!
>>>> Just make it clear. You have a PXE server, based on any DHCP/TFTP
>>>> appliactions. You have a client which have Linux using busybox (instead
>>>> of
>>>> full bunch of small applets), and you suppose to use this as a client
>>>> for
>>>> your PXE server?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>   tovis
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Tovis,
>>>
>>> that is correct.
>>>
>>> Eial.
>>>
>>>
>> busybox of course has tftp client and server, but anyway it needs kernel,
>> what mean you can not use it for boot up on client (if you have kernel on
>> client it meaning less to boot it from some where). For this purposes you
>> need PXE/LAN boot sw in BIOS, appropriate for your system/architecture.
>> With booted, working kernel you can use busybox as tftp client.
>>
>> Regards
>>   tovis
>>
> 
> Maybe you want coreboot (coreboot.org) ?
> 
> re,
>  wh


unfortunately this is out of the question.

Eial.