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Add PXE support #3

Open cilki opened 2 years ago

cilki commented 2 years ago

In order to enable PXE booting, the user would need to also add the goldboot registry's IP to their DHCP server.

When enabled, the registry will:

Start a TFTP listener on 69/UDP
Send a specialized goldboot linux image wrapped in an EFI binary
- According to the requestor's MAC address, the goldboot linux image automatically pulls the appropriate public image and applies it

berlin4apk commented 1 year ago

tjohnston-cd commented 1 year ago

Looking forward to it.

You might get some value from referencing digitalrebar's provision tool, which can act as a PXE boot server among other things.

cilki commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion; I'll try it out and see what other features are relevant. I love when open source is better than its proprietary counterparts!