On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:35 PM Miguel C <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:25 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca_at_bsdio.com> wrote: > >> On 6/16/20 5:17 AM, Miguel C wrote: >> >> > I've been trying out FreeBSD with raspberry Pi4 (4GB) and wanted to see >> > what the state of HTTP BOOT is in FreeBSD, so I bumped into this! >> > >> > I'm curious if it should be possible to point to a img/iso directly (I >> > tried to use the img.xz unpacked it and make it available on a local web >> > server and that didn't seem to work for me) but maybe thats cause those >> > images miss something, so arm64 aside does that work for amd64? I.E. >> using >> > the bootonly.iso? >> >> Unfortunately HTTP boot only works as far as the kernel: UEFI fetches >> loader.efi, the loader fetches and runs the kernel over HTTP -- and then >> you need to use NFS to mount the filesystem (or have a local root >> filesystem). >> >> > Thanks for the reply , I can work with that for a live system still better > than tftp, http+nfs should be that hard. > > >> UEFI also has RamDisk support, but I don't think that's for remote >> ISO/disk files, just local files. >> >> As for the ISO it does seem to work for remote ISO files, the bhyve con > presentantion suggests the same and I was able to boot the ubuntu arm64 > install iso using the direct link as a HTTP BOOT entry,. > > �>Start HTTP Boot over IPv4.... >> Station IP address is 172.16.50.62 >> >> URI: http:/?172.16.50.106/uarm64.iso >> File Size: 916357120 Bytes >> Downloading...26% >> > > But we also don't seem to have iso images for the raspberry pi, so it > might not work there, this does sugget just a link to the .efi file would > work: https://github.com/jljusten/tianocore/wiki/HTTP-Boot but I tired > that with no succes > Actually that was bad interpertation on my side for a ramdisk to be used it needs o be iso/img format. > In any case from what you're saying... for a live system I need http + nfs > for rootfs. > > But I'm still clueless how to set that up for FreeBSD, the guide mentioned > here is linux centric, what need to live on the http server side? > > >> -- >> Rebecca Cran >> >> >>Received on Tue Jun 16 2020 - 19:38:03 UTC
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