pxe-boot

Overview of PXE boot

Following are the highlights of the managed resource boot process :

- Load the PXE stack from the NIC

- Request an IP address from a DHCP server (-> dhcpd-plugin)

- Download its PXE config file from a TFTP server according its mac address (-> tftpd-plugin)

- Download kernel and initrd as per PXE config

- Then the resource loads and starts the kernel, loads the intird, mounts its root files system and does a pivot_root into it which initializes the system.

PXE boot process is shown below:

-	Load the PXE stack from the NIC
-	Request an IP address from a DHCP server (-> dhcpd-plugin)
-	Download its PXE config file from a TFTP server according its mac address (-> tftpd-plugin)
-	Download kernel and initrd as per PXE config
-	Then the resource loads and starts the kernel, loads the intird, mounts its root files system and does a pivot_root into it which initializes the system.