Tom, Can't say I've done it recently, but on my Red Hat course we did do remote booting. I can't remember of the top of my head what we did, but I'm sure NFS was involved.
However I think it's an interesting idea and I'll have to look it up and see what I can find as well! > > Thank you for your response I do like the idea of booting over the network > using PXE however I don’t currently have tufts server set up so was using > NFS a what I thought would be a quick solution. > > Tell me if you set up the PI to PXE boot can you revery back to the Standard > SD boot t it won’t PXE boot? > > Tom. > > > On 10 Oct 2023, at 21:14, James Dutton <james.dut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 at 13:04, Tom Gamble via Hampshire > > > > <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On my Raspberry Pis I’ve had a few issues with SD Cards failing so > >> thought there would be some mileage in using an NFS root. So if an SD > >> card fails I can just pop a new card in and my root fs will still be > >> good.> > > Hi, > > > > I have not tried your approach before. I have only done something > > called netboot. > > This is where you boot without an SD card at all. > > There are some hints on how to do it here: > > https://raspberrytips.com/network-boot-with-raspberry-pi/ > > Now, I have not actually done it with a Raspberry PI, only with Linux > > servers and embedded systems, but the principles are the same. > > You set up a DHCP server, with parameters that tell it where to find > > the linux kernel and initrd files etc. it then tftp gets them or http > > gets them. > > An interesting aspect of this, is that booting over a 1Gbps network is > > actually quicker than booting from an SD card. > > Also if the device crashes, as the files are not stored on the crashed > > device, the files do not become corrupted at all, so it's really > > helpful when doing kernel development on an embedded system. It not > > only reboots quicker, but no files are corrupted, and you get to see > > the last logs before it crashed. -- Adam Trickett Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France Wind is a finite resouce and harnessing it would slow the wind down which would cause temperatures to go up. -- Joe Barton US House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee member -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
