Boot Multicore On A x86 Server

[lid]

When you boot you should get a screen that says "boot:"

You can then hit F2, etc. for boot options...You're not getting this?

Not during my PXEboot. Maybe it has to be a kernel or initrd option in this case?

[gerald_clark]

You said you were booting a CD, and multicore is only on a CD/Flash drive.
For PXE booting, see the netboot section on the wiki.

[Rich]

Hi lid

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You said you were booting a CD, and multicore is only on a CD/Flash drive.That's what I understood too. You need to give accurate information about what you are doing.

When you boot you should get a screen that says "boot:"

You can then hit F2, etc. for boot options...You're not getting this?

Since you are already PXE booting, you won't get those options because they come from the
isolinux.cfg file.
Since you already seem to have set this up manually, go to the directory where you placed the
kernel and initrd and create a directory called  tce/optional/
Go to  http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/tcz/  and download
firmware-bnx2.tcz  and  firmware-bnx2.tcz.md5.txt  to tce/optional/
Create the file tce/onboot.lst containing the line  firmware-bnx2.tcz
That should be enough to get the firmware into your network card when you reboot. Check dmesg
to confirm that. Once that is done, you can use AppBrowser to properly install any other extensions
you may need.