Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

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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