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Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Speaking from personal experience, tftp is a terrible protocol so I'm here for it. A lot of tftp's terribleness is due to the simplicity of the protocol in general and it can be forgiven for that since it makes implementing a tftp server/client on marginal hardware really easy. Pre-boot environments are powerful enough now that I think we can use something a bit better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Modern UEFI in boxes has http boot options generally, and ipxe has supported http boot a long time. though I still get the grub2 bootloader bits over tftp, then http for kernel and initrd.