[openib-general] PXE + infiniband?

Smith, Stan stan.smith at intel.com
Mon Sep 11 09:27:28 PDT 2006


Eli cohen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:19 +0100, Paul Baxter wrote:
>>> There is an implementation of PXE for Mellanox's HCAs that can be
>>> found here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=494529
>> 
>> Thanks for the tip
>> 
>> I, too, am interested in this.
>> 
>> Do you have a more direct link as I wandered around etherboot's
>> project site and couldn't find anything IB-specific.
>> 
>> Paul Baxter
> Hi,
> 
> Please use the following link
>
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/etherboot/etherboot-5.4.2.tar
.bz2
> to download the package. Unpack the package and cd to the src dir.
> Use an x86 arch machine to build the binaries. The infiniband drivers
> are located at src/drivers/net/mlx_ipoib/ where you can find a readme
> file in the doc directory. To build.    
> 
> cd src
> make bin/MT23108.zrom  // for MT230108
> make bin/MT25208.zrom
> make bin/MT25218.zrom
> 
> This covers all Mellanox HCAs. Please let me know if you need more
> assistance.
> 

A less involved solution is to use ROM-o-matic http://rom-o-matic.net/ .
The Etherboot 5.4.2 image for MT23108 works nicely.

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