X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (3.203.202.84.customer.cdi.no [84.202.203.3]) (using SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: nc@alpinelinux.org) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D301DC00DB; Thu, 2 May 2013 10:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 12:01:36 +0200 From: Natanael Copa To: Hugo Landau Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] PXE boot of Alpine Linux Message-ID: <20130502120136.6c1be108@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <5179554F.3040804@devever.net> References: <5177F145.3020906@qq.com> <5179554F.3040804@devever.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:09:51 +0100 Hugo Landau wrote: > However, I recently submitted a patch to enable Alpine to PXE boot and > run from RAM. You can find this patch here: http://sprunge.us/TYHc, but > it should eventually go into Alpine itself. The patch is for the init > script placed into the initrd by mkinitfs. Hugo, and all, I have done a closer review of the patch now and I have some thoughts. * I wonder if we could drop the ovl_dev boot option and use the format: apkovl=[:]: where : is optional. If no fstype is specified let kernel autodetect. For PXE the boot option could be: apkovl=http:///path/host.apkovl.tar.gz I could not find anything documented on wiki.alpinelinux.org about ovl_dev. If nobody is using it, we could simply remove the ovl_dev option. Otherwise we could keep it for compat but let a new apkvol option take preference. -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---