[plug] WOL

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> Another obscure one.
> I have a large server which contains lots of noisy bits. I have now relocated this machine into 
> another room and hardwired a Gig-E into my living area.
> I now have a diskless machine to work from that is a great deal quieter than the old machine.
> Not knowing that the Gig-E card I was purchasing was a 2nd revision of the card and has a completely 
> different chipset to the one I thought I was ordering, it does not have any provision for a boot 
> rom. So I'm booting the machine off a usb keystick using dos and loadlin.
> What I'd like to be able to do is have this fire up the server using WOL before it loads the linux 

Does the card have a PXE boot rom? You can set up a tftp server and
config the card to grab the kernel and load in memory.

Else you an use "etherwake", debian has part of thier pool. Any other
distro google it.
> kernel. Now I have looked for apps to do this, but they are either win32 or linux. I'm of course 
> after a dos app (not likely but I thought I'd ask).

A good DOS WOL proggy is "etherboot" @ http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
or http://www.gknw.de/wol.html .
> 
> Failing this I guess I can put an initrd on the usb stick and load a bootstrap linux distro that 
> wakes the server, waits for it to come up, nfs mounts the root dir and then does a pivot_root into that.
> I was hoping for something a little easier though.
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
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Thanks...

Paul.

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