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Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm surprised existing systems weren't mentioned.

Booting from the network has been a thing since the 80s and is now standardized, I guess the main 'new' thing here is using https instead of tftp

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Speaking from personal experience, tftp is a terrible protocol so I'm here for it. A lot of tftp's terribleness is due to the simplicity of the protocol in general and it can be forgiven for that since it makes implementing a tftp server/client on marginal hardware really easy. Pre-boot environments are powerful enough now that I think we can use something a bit better.

[–] JollyGreen_sasquatch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Modern UEFI in boxes has http boot options generally, and ipxe has supported http boot a long time. though I still get the grub2 bootloader bits over tftp, then http for kernel and initrd.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Even as a systemd user I'm starting to feel the kitchen sink creep in

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What a load of bloat. NetBSD has a whole guide on diskless booting various machines, none of this shit is new.