On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:43:34 -0400 Joshua Kinard <ku...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I kinda wish the Linux kernel had an ability to partially boot, init the > networking subsystem, then fetch an initramfs image over TFTP like it can do > with NFS Root. That would solve the problem on my MIPS system(s) (and make > install netboots better). I've dug around, but this does not seem to be a > capability currently in the kernel, unless I have over looked something. > > Otherwise in the future, I may just have to setup an initramfs into an NFS > Root and teach the SGI's to somehow deal with it. Which all still seems > unnecessarily complicated because some other distro thinks it knows what's > best for everyone else (but I digress...). NBD may be a slightly simpler alternative and a bit more like an initramfs. nbdkit can do all sorts of weird things. I thought it might have a plugin for cpio archives, allowing you to use a regular initramfs generated by Dracut or similar directly. It doesn't appear to but plugins are quite easy to write. Alternatively you could just extract the initramfs and use nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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