They are device agnostic to the some extend. But currently oemboot for armv7l doesn't support networking and that means that initial initrd cannot run nbd-client to mount root. But, I think that It worth to stop bloating oemboot and introduce nbdboot 2015-11-15 2:16 GMT+03:00 Tony Su :

I was under the impression that JeOS images were pretty much device agnostic, laying the image should lay a supported file system on the block device.

Can't what you propose already be done? Or, maybe your source and method to lay the JeOS might be different than what I am thinking of?

Tony

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:

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Hello,

What do you think about adding possibility to use nbd (network block device) as a root partition for JeOSes?

It could be useful for hardware-testing farms. For instance, u-boot takes kernel and initrd via tftp and then kiwi-based initrd mounts root device /dev/nbd0 feed by qemu-nbd.

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2015-11-15 18:09 GMT+03:00 Andreas Färber :

Am 15.11.2015 um 09:18 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov:

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They are device agnostic to the some extend. But currently oemboot for armv7l doesn't support networking and that means that initial initrd cannot run nbd-client to mount root.

Could you be a little more specific what you propose? If you want nbd support in the initrd, you could just do an SR against the JeOS package for review. If it's not enabled in the kernel, please send me a patch.

I suppose nbd should be introduced (or checked) into KIWI and Dracut. I will look into but not now.

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But, I think that It worth to stop bloating oemboot and introduce nbdboot

How would that help? You still need per-board fdt packages and initrd drivers to be able to use the network. For booting the kernel from network I believe you'd need PXE/TFTP instead.

I mean that I would be able to drop all modules except networking from KIWI Initrd

If someone wants to boot from AHCI (like I do on Jetson TK1 / IFC6410) they can boot with an SD image, format, mount and untar rootfs, update the bootargs and reboot. An SD card may still be needed for U-Boot. A similar approach should work for switching to nbd, iSCSI, AoE, FCoE or NFS, too. Maybe I'm not understanding correctly?

I want to deploy system automatically. And this should be possible if bootloader takes kernel and initrd through PXE (and I can replace images on the server) and initrd takes root from the server (where I can replace root image) using nbd. -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp://0x2207@jabber.ru -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org