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Can you really say you are booting off of something remote when you are really booting a rootfs from a local initramfs of several megabytes?

• russdill 2y ago
  To close the loop, they really need an EFI stub that loads a combined kernel image/ramfs from Drive.
  • ceving 2y ago
    iPXE can already boot from a web server: https://ipxe.org/ https://ipxe.org/
    • e12e 2y ago
      Should be possible then, if you "share" the initrd and Linux image? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37453841/download-a-file-from-google-drive-using-wget https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37453841/download-a-file...
• 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
  That's what I'm saying about hard drives and ROMs
  • unixhero 2y ago
    Yeah we didn't need those silly hardrives with their crufty filesystems.
• creshal 2y ago
  Not any worse than 32+ megabytes of UEFI booting off of an iPXE bootrom.
• omnicognate 2y ago
  Perhaps that's what this "off of" preposition means. I've often wondered.