Pegasos

Netbooting

The Open Desktop Workstations (ODWs) use SmartFirmware. The SmartFirmware user manual has a good netbooting tutorial, but the ODWs we have don't seem to support DHCP. As such, configure the boot-device explicitly with the server IP, file name, client IP, and timeouts, like so:

setenv boot-device eth:159.28.234.1,vmlinuz.chrp,159.28.234.140,,3,3

This can be saved in the firmware by editing the nvramrc script. To begin editing, type nvedit and add the above command to the end of the list (change 'eth' to the devalias of whatever ethernet device you wish to use). When finished, hit control-C to exit the editor. Then, type nvstore to save your changes.