Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

[Perry Metzger <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On 8/5/25 09:58, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.

I don't want nfs at all. I want to boot an INSTALL kernel with a ramdisk 
and then proceed to format the local drives and download the sets into 
them. It's really easy to just set up a MOP server, I need a dhcp server 
anyway, I don't want to set up rarpd, rpc.bootparamd, and an NFS server 
just to do installs.

Perry