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How can I boot diskless systems from my Coraid EtherDrive devices?

April 26, 2017boot Devices diskless etherdrive SYSTEMS

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How can I boot diskless systems from my Coraid EtherDrive devices?

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Booting from AoE devices is similar to other kinds of network booting. Customers have contributed examples of successful strategies in the Contributions Area of the Coraid website. Jayson Vantuyl: Making A Flexible Initial Ramdisk Jason McMullan: Add root filesystem on AoE support to aoe driver Keep in mind that if you intend to use AoE devices before udev is running, you must use static minor numbers for the device nodes. An aoe6 driver version 50 or above can be instructed to use static minor numbers by being loaded with the aoe_dyndevs=0 module parameter. (Previous aoe drivers only used static minor device numbers.