Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2025-08-05 15:12, Perry Metzger wrote:
> On 8/4/25 22:27, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>
>>> The boot blocks don't currently do tftp though, and as it stands
>>> Ragge's patches to let you MOP boot the kernel directly are not in
>>> place.
>>
>> The network booting (MOP) pulls in the boot program (/boot), and that
>> one then uses dhcp and tftp to pull in the kernel, and then off it goes.
>
> No. The boot program currently lets you netboot off of NFS. It does not
> have a tftp boot option.
Hmm. I had a recollection that it also did tftp, but maybe I'm
misremembering, or that have changed over time.
But I think that is actually better. You probably want nfs either way,
so then we're just down to dhcp and nfs, which you would want anyway.
Johnny
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