On 31 Jul 2013, at 21:30, Chris Tapp wrote: > Is there an easy way to have a system boot and load the rootfs from a network > server? > > I'm using an x86 system and can have the kernel and an initrd on it. I would > use bootp, but a lot of end users either don't have this or will not allow it > to be used. I think it needs to go something like: > > 1) Kernel loads the initrd and bring the network up (static or DHCP); > 2) The rootfs image can then be download; > 3) Some magic then makes this run... > > This would allow easy update of the rootfs and makes it non-volatile (which > is good for this project). > > Does this make sense, or is there a better / easier way to do it?
Looks like http://ipxe.org/ could be what's needed. Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com www.keylevel.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
