Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:37:24 +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 Message-ID: <CADGo8CXksUB9vjtqj7gYpBreuucV3eGWbk1V%2Bq-yB2y_AAz=7w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADGo8CWRqMdZ1ZD=dpRyNjBRdq9PXTUKF8deQ3NhgPnAFBOJ0A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADGo8CUrJaUdNpoJ3FwpNt09Eq3MEtc2R-TRWa44WizuS6GKFw@mail.gmail.com> <0b38b537-9d9b-b3ae-bae3-bb5b4926bbaa@bsdio.com> <CADGo8CWRqMdZ1ZD=dpRyNjBRdq9PXTUKF8deQ3NhgPnAFBOJ0A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:35 PM Miguel C <miguelmclara@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 se= e >> > 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 w= eb >> > server and that didn't seem to work for me) but maybe thats cause tho= se >> > 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 bette= r > 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 > 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 + nf= s > for rootfs. > > But I'm still clueless how to set that up for FreeBSD, the guide mentione= d > here is linux centric, what need to live on the http server side? > > >> -- >> Rebecca Cran >> >> >>
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