finnix-netboot-*: Make multi-arch netbooting possible from comb ISO

Bug #902695 reported by Ryan Finnie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Finnix
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Finnix developers

Bug Description

When booting from a comb ISO on PPC, you can only use finnix-netboot-* to create a netboot setup that can boot PPC. It would be nice to be able to netboot from either x86 or PPC.

How could things like pxelinux.0 be supplied when booted into the PPC side, etc?

Low importance, since comb ISOs are not released to the public.

Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Ryan Finnie (ryan-finnie)
milestone: none → 104
Revision history for this message
Ryan Finnie (fo0bar) wrote :

Will need to extend functionality to mount the compressed root of the non-booted userland to extract modules. Not going to be easy.

Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
milestone: 104 → 105
summary: - finnix-netboot-*: Make multi-arch netbooting possible fom comb ISO
+ finnix-netboot-*: Make multi-arch netbooting possible from comb ISO
Revision history for this message
Ryan Finnie (fo0bar) wrote :

105 will be putting CD boot files in /boot/x86 and /boot/ppc. This will make the peripheral issues surrounding this much easier, but the core problem of mounting the non-booted userland to extract modules is still there.

Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
assignee: Ryan Finnie (fo0bar) → Finnix developers (finnix-dev)
Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
milestone: 105 → 106
Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
milestone: 106 → none
Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)
Changed in finnix:
status: New → Won't Fix
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