Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by sigjuice on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:50PM
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You might want to try booting from one of these images here and see what it gets you https://netboot.xyz/downloads/#raspberry-pi-ipxe-bootloaders
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by AviationAtom on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:32PM
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Throw a copy of iPXE on USB, then chainload it. Super easy. If you're using virtualization then there might be a chance iPXE is already used, in which case it's super easy. Not sure if that changes much with Pis though, as they tend to be a different beast.
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by kayson on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:57PM
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I found to be helpful specifically for Netboot https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2019-12-16-netboot-xyz-docke...
The docs don't explain much.[0] I tried running the Docker container and couldn't figure out what to do with it. I didn't see a way of uploading new images to it, and I didn't know how to refer to the netboot.xyz container as a PXE target.
Has anyone found a good guide on how to use netboot.xyz? Is netboot.xyz capable of doing what I want? (i.e., I load different Raspberry Pi OS images onto netboot.xyz in a VM/Docker container, and then I point my Pi to network boot from the netboot.xyz server, and netboot.xyz serves the Pi the OS image I want). The Pi natively supports network booting[1], but I don't know if I'm putting the right pieces together.
[0] https://netboot.xyz/docs/quick-start
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...