Hi Chris, On Wednesday 31 July 2013 22:25:42 Chris Tapp wrote: > 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.
FWIW, a couple of years ago I did write a recipe for ipxe which I successfully used for over-the-network booting with atom-pc. I never found a proper home for it though so it's still sitting in one of my poky-contrib branches: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/tree/meta/recipes-bsp/ipxe?h=paule/ipxe Feel free to make use of it if it helps you. (I can't promise it hasn't bitrotted in the time since I wrote it, so it may need tweaking; I notice I didn't even specify a SRCREV which really should be specified, and I'm not sure if it's cross-compiling properly either). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
