yakkoj 🦊May 7, 2025

I'm about to find out why I never bother with PXE boot

Or maybe I'll work out why I've never done this before

Or maybe I'll admit that I've avoided PXE because Intel

Show threadyakkoj 🦊May 7, 2025

OK, at least Debian has a page on PXE that gives me a chance to make it work

It shouldn't be much harder than the usual bootp/TFTP thing that's been around forever and is supported by OBP

I just need to do all the spade work in the right ways/order

Show threadyakkoj 🦊May 7, 2025
speaking of TFTP, it's 2025 and even cisco's latest really expensive Red Hat machines support booting NX-OS or IOS-XE from TFTP
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@yakkoj most boxes now support using http instead of tftp tho, a LOT faster for big boot payload. Also, I now use "Unified Kernel Binary" that mex a kernel, initrd and command line into one big EFI blob and boot it direct. No bootloader needed
May 7, 2025 at 3:04pmWeb