Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 11 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE 10-02-2009 Manual page 111

Figure 7.1 Point of Service Terminal Boot Process
NO
Have
Disk
NO NO
System?
YES
NO
Load kernel
Load the client
image on disk
Detailed information about each boot process is provided in the following sections.
7.8.1 Network PXE Boot
To boot Point of Service terminals from the network, the following conditions must be
met:
Point of Service
Terminal
CD or
NO NO
USB Boot?
PXE
Network
YES
Boot?
Update
NO
Image?
YES
Use Same
Image?
Load pxelinux.0,
linux, and initrd.gz
YES
Run linuxrc
Load
config. MAC_address
Load pxelinux.0, New image version
linux, and initrd.gz is detected
Download
Run linuxrc
client image
Load Verify the
config. MAC_address image
Image version Load the
is verified client image
Load the Image Install
client image Notification occurs
Boot CD
YES
YES
First
Time
NO
Boot?
YES
Load pxelinux.0,
linux, and initrd.gz
Run linuxrc
Upload
hwtype. MAC_address
Load
config. MAC_address
Image and image
version are identified
Download
client image
Verify the
image
Load the
Load kernel
client image
Load theclient
Image Install
image from CD
Notification occurs
or from USB
Deploying Point of Service Terminals
NO NO
NO
NO
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