Hi Rudolf, On 31 Jul 2013, at 22:29, Rudolf Streif wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to have a system boot and load the rootfs from a network > server? > > The classic way is to serve the root file system from an NFS server. You will > have to pass the root=/dev/nfs and > nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>] to your kernel via boot > loader. > > Every system you want to boot this way will need to have its own root file > system on the NFS server. However, there is the nfsroot project [1] that > reportedly allows booting entire clusters sharing one root file system. I > have not used that though. Ah. I forgot to mention that it has to boot from a Windows server and NFS will not be available. Sorry about that. > > > > 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 looks like you want to start up the system, download a root file system > tarball, extract it to somewhere and then use that as the root file system by > chroot'ing to it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > > > Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com www.keylevel.com
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