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prmoustache
on July 2, 2024
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Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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?
creshal
on July 2, 2024
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Not any worse than 32+ megabytes of UEFI booting off of an iPXE bootrom.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF
on July 2, 2024
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That's what I'm saying about hard drives and ROMs
unixhero
on July 2, 2024
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Yeah we didn't need those silly hardrives with their crufty filesystems.
russdill
on July 2, 2024
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To close the loop, they really need an EFI stub that loads a combined kernel image/ramfs from Drive.
ceving
on July 2, 2024
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iPXE can already boot from a web server:
https://ipxe.org/
e12e
on July 2, 2024
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Should be possible then, if you "share" the initrd and Linux image?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37453841/download-a-file...
omnicognate
on July 2, 2024
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Perhaps that's what this "off of" preposition means. I've often wondered.
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