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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:35:37 +0100
From:      Miguel C <miguelmclara@gmail.com>
To:        Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:25 PM Rebecca Cran <rebecca@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 we=
b
> > server and that didn't seem to work for me)  but maybe thats cause thos=
e
> > 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,.

=EF=BF=BD>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

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
>
>
>



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