Another thing I haven't tried is to set up NFS.  Can we simply specify ONE file 
(similar to .hddimg) that could be tftp over to target, and expect it to boot 
up?  Could this be the cause of my problem?


________________________________
From: Raymond Yeung <rksye...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:33 PM
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Linux Files needed for PXE network boot


I've yet to receive any response to my post below.  I've gone through fair 
amount of experimentation to get my board downloaded successfully the 
first-stage boot loader.  I'd tried pxelinux.0 for legacy BIOS and bootx64.efi 
(also generated in build process) to work with UEFI on client side.  However, 
no luck going any further so far.  Debugging the client side is rather cryptic 
(black box).


I'm just wondering if it's because of a missing kick-start file (ks.conf)?  
I've tried "kernel images/<kernel>.hddimg" (was careful in specifying the path 
relative /tftpboot root directory), also bzImage.bin, and the combo of vmlinuz 
+ initrd files.  Neither one of the works so far.  When I tried UEFI with 
bootx64.efi, the client side stops at GRUB, complaining "error: no such device: 
()/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg."  When I tried legacy BIOS with pxelinux.0, I got 
"PXE-E16: No offer received.  ERROR: Boot option loading failed".


Any idea anyone?


________________________________
From: Raymond Yeung <rksye...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:42 PM
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Linux Files needed for PXE network boot

I've a .hddimg image bootable from USB thumb drive.  As part of the boot-up, I 
also could invoke "Serial Install" to transfer such an image to SSD, such that 
in the next round, I could boot from SSD instead.

What are the files and where do I get them (relative to where I find .hddimg) 
from the build tree, and install them on the tftp server, in order to support 
PXE network booting?  Also, what mechanism do people use to transfer this after 
PXE boot into the SSD, making it bootable?

Raymond
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