I’ve been trying to become a better linux user and learn some low level details about an the kernel and distro I’m using.

Today after a week of struggling I successfully diskless-booted one linux machine off of another.
I’m so happy, proud, and satisfied! Can’t wait to learn more!

Much awesome!

Diskless boot.. PXE or TFTP or something along those lines? I mean, diskless is kinda impossible unless you can use very low level protocols like aforementioned or have a bootloader and kernel locally 🤔

Either way, good work! Have my ++ for sparking my curiosity 😊

I'm struggling to boot anything of a iSCSi share via iPxe, to be precise mlnx flexboot.

So many little problems and all suck.

PXE can be fun, used it to beat an old 32 bit Toshiba portege laptop into submission. Put a minimal Debian install on PXE because it refused to boot via USB or CD. Thing has 2GB ram, a serial port, and an Ethernet port. At my job we use it to manage switches via SSH and serial, like a Swiss Network Knife.

@linuxxx thanks! 😊

@Condor yes, pxe and tftp.