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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:48:34 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Miguel C <miguelmclara@gmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support
Message-ID:  <5957.1592322514@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <202006161535.05GFZJFn081325@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <202006161535.05GFZJFn081325@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> One problem you run into in attemtping this is even if you get an
> image downloaded and started that image is being provided by some
> memory device driver that emulates some type of iso device.
> FreeBSD does not have a driver for that device so once the kernel
> gets to the point of mounting its root file system it falls on
> its face with a mountroot failure.

Are you refering to something like:

vfs.root.mountfrom="cd9660:/dev/md0.uzip"

we boot that way all the time.



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