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<tt>The Mad One wrote:</tt>
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<p><tt>...The subject says it all, I need a little ram disk
less than 1MB in size, just after gPXE loads but before the AoE
sanboot, is it possible ?</tt></p>
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Yes. Support your boot sequence goes gPXE -> MEMDISK -> gPXE
-> sanboot. That satisfies your criteria. I suspect that you'd
rather do this, however:<br>
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gPXE -> sanboot -> GRUB4DOS -> RAM disk<br>
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<p><tt>i'm not sure if MEMDISK is suitable nor how to do it, i
need NTFS on that RamDisk & a drive letter.<br>
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An NTFS filesystem cannot be made on a device of less than 1 MB. I
think what you meant to say is, "I want a floppy disk image to use as a
RAM disk which has an NTFS driver on it so I can get a drive letter for
the NTFS filesystem on the AoE SAN." Is this accurate? If so, I
respectfully request that you try to include such detail in your future
questions to mailing-lists. Not everyone is familiar with your
situation, so you might have to spell it out.<br>
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<p><tt>If the previous is possible, is it possible to get gPXE
to load a file from TFTP to that ramdisk ? (through a script to load a
file that is named after the actual IP or MAC address of the machine
running gPXE & rename it to a specific name inside the ram disk.)<br>
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Now you're asking for something more... I recommend attacking your
problem one step at a time. It seems that you want a RAM disk which
can access an AoE SAN at the same time as you want to be able to use
gPXE for general networking, such as a DOS image with an UNDI driver
and TFTP on it. Briefly, I will suggest that you have either SAN or
UNDI, but not both. I say that because some experiments of my own have
failed. Someone else on this list might suggest something different.<br>
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<p><tt>Well, i hope this was clear enough & wasn't out of
topic.<br>
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The network-booting aspects are on-topic. NTFS DOS drivers creep a
little off-topic, in my humble opinion, though I understand the
utility. Perhaps you might be interested in looking at boot.kernel.org.<br>
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- Shao Miller<br>
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