Click the first link in the article, they talk about their stboot bootloader. It does what you suspect, loads the OS image from a different computer which has signed base images.
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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
Just for my understanding when they boot such a server, where does it get it’s operating system from? Over the network from a different computer which has a hard drive or some read only ROM on the server or what?
Kazumara@feddit.de 1 year ago
UFO64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This can be handled a few different ways.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
16MiB is enough to hold entire Linux distro. Example: OpenWRT
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
I remember that there was a ROM in the Amiga 500 which had the kickstart software on it which you’d load from a diskette on the predecessor the Amiga 1000. This made it much faster to boot because you would not need to switch diskettes in the middle of the boot.