✎ soc:2009:pravin:journal:week3

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====== Week 3 ======

=== June - 9 ===
  - Getting up rom-o-matic with BKO support on etherboot. done [http://etherboot.org/share/pravin/BKO/rom-o-matic/]
  - Because of some wired reason, even original rom-o-matic code is not producing any output. -- solved, the bin/NIC target was not compiled in and error reporting was turned off.
  - The latest gpxe code, and gpxe version used by rom-o-matic, both are creating trubble while booting. [[ProbsBKORomOMatic]]

=== June - 10 ===
  - Trying to fix the problem with BKO and Rom-O-Matic integration [[ProbsBKORomOMatic]]
  - Adding DSL to pxeknife [[PxeKnifeDSL]]
  - Trying to boot it over http.

=== June - 11 - 13 ===
  - I was mostly working getting DSL working over HTTP with pxekinfe.
  - I have covered the logs of those attempts in [[PxeKnifeDSL]]
  - Mostly I spent most of my time in 
     - Testing whether networking works or not in initramfs.
     - Figuring out, which extra kernel drivers and tools to be added in initramfs to get networking work.
     - Getting the statically compiled busybox for linux kernel 2.4.
     - Figuring out where to put HTTPFS related code in the messy code of linuxrc.
  - Once I got it working, then I replicated the entire setup in 
     - my laptop (Where I actually do work)
     - alien.doesntexist.org (my amsterdam machine, which I use for testing)
     - rom.etherboot.org

=== June - 14 ===
Used weekend to explore Paris. I was too tired to do anything useful when I returned.

==== Few useful links ====
  - http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/net_boot.htm

Trace: • week7 • ubuntubko • week3 • week9 • wrapup • week1 • week9

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