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In the configuration file for PXE, a number of options are available. Typi-
cally, a configuration file for the installation of a computer looks like this:
default linux
label linux
kernel linux
append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 install=slp:
implicit 0
display message
prompt 1
timeout 200
notice 2
For this configuration to work, copy the linux and initrd files from the
first installation CD to the /tftpboot/ directory. Find these files on the
CD under /boot/loader/. Also define an installation source available
through SLP. The procedure for this is described in Section 4.1 on page 152.
Preparing tftp for Booting Itanium Processor Family Computers
The image required for network booting of Itanium Processor Fam-
ily computers is contained on the first CD for SUSE LINUX Enterprise
Server, in the /boot/image file. To prepare for the boot process, ex-
tract file bootia64.efi from this image and copy it as elilo.efi
to the /tftpboot/ directory. To launch the boot process, the files
linux, initrd, textmenu, and elilo.conf must also be copied to
/tftpboot/. Assuming that the first CD is available in the /media/
cdrom/ directory, achieve this by entering the following commands:
mount -o loop,ro /media/cdrom/boot/image /mnt
cd /mnt/efi/boot
cp -p linux initrd textmenu elilo.conf /tftpboot
cp -p bootia64.efi /tftpboot/elilo.efi
umount /mnt
The final step is to supplement the append lines in /tftpboot/elilo.
conf by adding another parameter, install=slp:. This tells the instal-
lation system that it should search for its installation source using the SLP
protocol.
160 4.3. Booting from the Network