On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Admittedly, I have not gone through the whole thread, but I'd like to >> point out that I *do* use the DVD and netinstall ISOs for optical >> media boot on real hardware, though in a somewhat indirect manner. >> Many of the servers I use have IPMI, which allows me to have it boot a >> remote DVD device with an ISO or a real DVD drive. Due to certain > > This is interesting. Does IPMI also allow you boot from a "remote USB device"? >
Not any of the servers I've worked with. Only remote DVD boot. I've never heard of anyone being able to do remote USB or disk device, as I think the ability to write over the network is considered not desirable... >> bugs[1], I've increasingly relied on the DVD vs netinstall. From the >> system's perspective, it's a regular DVD startup, just like with VMs. > > Well, unfortunately DVD boot on bare metal is different from DVD boot in VMs. > The former is proposed to be less tested, the latter would remain fully > tested. The question is what form of boot IPMI uses, and that information is > probably difficult to find out. > > I wonder, why do you prefer remote DVD boot over something like PXE boot, > boot.fedoraproject.org or booting the iso directly from grub? The environment I'm working in doesn't allow us to have a PXE boot server. boot.fedoraproject.org doesn't seem to work, and even if it did, that would likely be the equivalent of a netinstall, and netinstalls are broken until someone does something about how kernel package flavors are selected and installed. Booting the iso from grub implies I have something to boot from first (I usually don't), and also setting up grub is a non-trivial task for this stuff. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
