onboot.lst help

[deeepdish]

Hello,

I successfully booted Core 7.2 using PXE, however an unable to automatically install TCEs at boot via on boot.lst.

I've created my own cpio.gz with all modules listed under tmp/tce/optional ..  I have a tmp/tce/onboot.lst.

I've tried the following PXE config, with and without the APPEND line.   

I can load any module successfully by manually running tce-load -i (mod name)   .   eg.   tce-load -i bash

LABEL Media Installer
KERNEL images/tinycorelinux/7.2/x86/vmlinuz
INITRD images/tinycorelinux/7.2/x86/core.gz,images/tinycorelinux/7.2/x86/custom.gz
APPEND pretce showapps

[gerald_clark]

Use an nfs tce directory as described in http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbooting

[andyj]

You can also pass the name of a http server and file with the extensions to load via httplist on the boot cmdline. I use lighttpd for this.

[gerald_clark]

True, but httplist does not automatically resolve dependencies.  You have to include them all in the list.
NFS is cleaner because it works just like a hard drive installation.  You just install from the cloud to the nfs based tce directory using the standard "apps" or "tce" programs and they are there on the next boot.

[deeepdish]

Doesn't NFS require the nfs-utils package?   I'm using the 11MB core.  I'm trying to keep things simple and contained..    Given chain loading INITRDs is possible using pxelinux ( and it works  - e.g. INITRD images/tinycorelinux/7.2/x86/core.gz,images/tinycorelinux/7.2/x86/custom.gz),  The part of the init scripts that doesn't seem to work is enumerating onboot.lst.   

Is there something I'm doing wong?   Docs state to structure the directory structure as tce/onboot.lst and tce/optional/(packages).

I had a look at the tc-config script and all I could see TCEDIR="/tmp/tce" and TCEOPT="/tmp/tce/optional".

Looks like the scrips access the mounted INITRD via /etc/sysconfig/tcedir -- all of which are accessible.    Just onboot.lst isn't loading at boot time.   

[curaga]

/tmp/tce is the default directory in RAM, but it's not checked at boot as it's assumed empty. The dir that is intended for this is /tmp/builtin.

/tmp/builtin/onboot.lst
/tmp/builtin/optional/...

[deeepdish]

That worked!   thanks for your help!