v40z 's and booting from usb cdrom 2006-02-15 - By Jussi Silvennoinen
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> We've got four Sun v40z's fully populated with disks
> (thus taking the slot normally taken by the floppy & DVD
> drive). The BIOS supports booting from usb floppy, but not
> other usb devices, including usb cds or pendrives.
>
> So, how would we go about booting an arbitrary boot CD
> (say Sun v40z diagnostics boot cd) with this setup?
> Is there any way to initialize a USB CD boot from a
> floppy? Could I bootstrap booting an NFS exported ISO?
> From what I've read, I can't PXE boot a CD image.
Pop the hood and plug a IDE-cd to the mobo?
> Failing an arbitrary CD, what's the best way to boot a
> RHEL rescue CD? Can I do that through PXE?
Yes.
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Jussi
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