hi gary, apologies for the late reply.
On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:48:42 AM UTC-7, Gary Grebus wrote: > > I've been exploring how to PXE boot CoreOS and run coreos_install, in > order to do bare metal installs on an ARM server. A couple of issues I've > encountered: > > 1. The 1081.1.0 build is missing gnupg which coreos_install uses. I was > able to fix the problem that prevented gnupg from building on ARM, and > built a workable image. > it's great to hear you're experimenting with CoreOS on arm64! i'm curious what your resolution was to fix gnupg. the reason it's been put in packages.provided is that for the current version, pth doesn't cross compile, and for a newer version, libgpg-error doesn't cross-compile. if you have a fix for this, your contribution would be welcome :-) > > 2. What is the expected mechanism for network booting the CoreOS image? > (AFAIK pxelinux doesn't exist for ARM.) Grub is capable of doing this, > although the coreos_production_pxe_grub.efi that gets built by > image_to_vm.sh seems to be missing the "linux" module that would normally > be needed. Is the grub.cfg that gets built into > coreos_production_pxe_grub.efi expected to do a network boot when loaded > via PXE? > > FWIW, I was able to run grub_mkimage and build a grub image that is able > to boot CoreOS via tftp or http. From there I was able to successfully do > a coreos_install to disk. > we haven't really done a lot of work wrt pxe boot on arm64, but if you can identify problems, you can file issues at https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues. i've looked at this briefly, and it seems there is indeed no linux module. it worked on disk because the grub modules were available on disk for loading, but not packed into the the grub efi binary. should be fixed in the next alpha, as i've turned on linux and tftp modules for grub's efi binary. > > -- Gary > > > > > >
