This really sounds interesting and I would like to check this out. But unfortunatly at the moment I couldn't even order some PIs as there are none available. So watching this videos is somehow like window shopping. But this is not your fault - so please goahead with your great TH-cam channel.
Thanks for the video! I would like to see a version where you boot from iSCSI instead of NFS, and maybe using LVM and thin provisioning on the server side to provide the iSCSI block devices 🙏
This is thee best guide ive found so far from many weeks of research and it works! this might be too much asking but, could you make a video using NFS and tftp server on a ubuntu linux machine? i have a cluster of Raspberry pi back home and would love love to pxe boot all of them :3
Pretty good video, but it would be nice to see more of the configuration aspects, especially on the server side. I know, there are numeorus server platforms that can be used, but one can usually extrapolate from one setup to another. A question: can the PXE bootloader use an initramfs/initrd in-memory filesystem, rather than NFS mounted root filesystem? Where would you specify that? In x86 PXE, the PXE bootloader uses a configuration file that allows you to specify the filesystem image to retrieve from the TFTP server. It seems like the PXE bootloader is a permanent part of the Pi, rather than downloaded from the TFTP server. Is there a PXE bootloader for the Pi, which would work in a similar way?
FYI: There is a tool you can flash from Raspberry Pi Imager that takes only a minute or so, then boot it up. It will change the boot order for you with zero intervention. This is especially helpful if you have several Pis to change, as once it's created you just boot to it and wait for the fast green flashing light (anything else is an error code). It takes seconds to reconfigure this way. Overall still much faster than installing Raspbian OS, booting, configuring, and rebooting just to change one setting. Edit: Same goes for USB boot, or reverting back. Flash the option you want, boot, done.
Yeah, I think I'd like to do this from a Qnap NAS. I have a couple utility RPis, print server, Pi hole, and want to add some more for VPN, Home Automation, cameras, etc.
Hi i would like to boot a rasberry pie via pxe linux or Windows ,and get a few programs installed on a client like pie hole would you be able to make a script that would compile some sort of image with a few added applications would be wonderful...great video
Great. Thanks for the video. Could this be the re-birth of the "Linux Terminal Server Project" ? I used that around year 2000. Loved it. Nowadays everything is Virtual Machines.
@@neils132 THAT is very good to hear. Thanks. I'll certainly look into that as ltsp still keeps a little place in my heart due to nostalgia. In about one year I'll have to equip an orphanage with a dozen terminals and I'm thinking of RPIs with "whatever". Probably Emmabuntu or Roxeo.
Considering the number of people who get stuck with a rpi that will not boot any more after a power outage or forced down of a frozen rpi, using one as a server does not look like a good idea to me. Pls consider a NAS. It probably has redundance on board.
I have been running Pi units for years, 24x7, and I have never had a Pi that won't reboot after a power outage. Even if that happens, you just need to setup a new SD card and carry on where you left off.
What if most of the "files" under the /nfs directory are just symbolic links to the server's files, would only need some extra files/folders with the unique configs for the netbooting rpi4 ? first problem, how to make all those links and all the sub-folders ... except /tmp and other tmp folders ...
What happens if there are two servers in the same network serving files for same serial number of Raspberry board? How would Raspberry know which sever to connect to?
Doesn't it going over all steps when booting? There should be boot order. If there is no sdcard, then boot from usb and if not, then boot from network.
Not that I know of. For more security the best thing to use is UEFI and HTTPS boot. I will likely do a video on UEFI network booting for the Pi at some point.
Just curious, what more secure can you be than having your RP directly cabled to your server (even if a switch/router are in the up/down stream), it is not like you are out on the big bad internet asking remptely to boot it?
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Yes please, please make a video showing how to boot form a synology nas, etc!
OT: I switched from Synology to Asustore (AS6604T). The best decision ever. ;-)
I prefer the video to make, to be with windows instead
@@sargetester99 a Windows server ?
@@jyvben1520 yes sir,, both please, server and client working together.
yes by all means..
This is the best tutorial out there period!!!!
Please do a tutorial for Linux and windows as a server and raspberry pi as client
So many quality contents still not getting enough subscibers this guy deserve to have atleast 10 M subscribers
Yes, do a PXE video of various systems, please!
Your videos are outstanding. I concur with David, and in particular I'd love to see how to use Mac OS as a server for this. Thanks !!!
This really sounds interesting and I would like to check this out. But unfortunatly at the moment I couldn't even order some PIs as there are none available. So watching this videos is somehow like window shopping. But this is not your fault - so please goahead with your great TH-cam channel.
I would interested in a video showing how to boot form a Synology NAS.
Thank you for the training. I am still scratching my head about how I will use it... although I have a 24x7 Raspberry Pi 4 server running.
Thanks for the video! I would like to see a version where you boot from iSCSI instead of NFS, and maybe using LVM and thin provisioning on the server side to provide the iSCSI block devices 🙏
I second this request.
Cool video, love the idea! could you also explain how to set this up for multiple cliënts on multiple architectuur?
This is thee best guide ive found so far from many weeks of research and it works! this might be too much asking but, could you make a video using NFS and tftp server on a ubuntu linux machine? i have a cluster of Raspberry pi back home and would love love to pxe boot all of them :3
Pretty good video, but it would be nice to see more of the configuration aspects, especially on the server side. I know, there are numeorus server platforms that can be used, but one can usually extrapolate from one setup to another. A question: can the PXE bootloader use an initramfs/initrd in-memory filesystem, rather than NFS mounted root filesystem? Where would you specify that? In x86 PXE, the PXE bootloader uses a configuration file that allows you to specify the filesystem image to retrieve from the TFTP server. It seems like the PXE bootloader is a permanent part of the Pi, rather than downloaded from the TFTP server. Is there a PXE bootloader for the Pi, which would work in a similar way?
FYI: There is a tool you can flash from Raspberry Pi Imager that takes only a minute or so, then boot it up. It will change the boot order for you with zero intervention. This is especially helpful if you have several Pis to change, as once it's created you just boot to it and wait for the fast green flashing light (anything else is an error code). It takes seconds to reconfigure this way. Overall still much faster than installing Raspbian OS, booting, configuring, and rebooting just to change one setting.
Edit: Same goes for USB boot, or reverting back. Flash the option you want, boot, done.
Hi Gary. A video on booting a Pi from a QNAP NAS would be great. Thanks.
Hello @Gary Explains can you show in the next video, if possible how android aosp can also be booted from a network in the same manner ?
Why would you want that?
Hah i finally found this video again! I just got a Synology Nas and pi4 8gb, definitely gonna do this. Maybe even this week!
Yes, please do make a video on how to boot tie pi from TrueNAS
just came across this. good stuff! do you have docs/examples on how to boot another board from raspberry pi like a beaglebone black? thx
Yes please make a video to show booting from a qnap Nas and how to configure using Ansible
Yeah, I think I'd like to do this from a Qnap NAS. I have a couple utility RPis, print server, Pi hole, and want to add some more for VPN, Home Automation, cameras, etc.
Hi Gary, I''d like to see a tuturoial to boot from a linux server or if possible via a docker container to do it. Thanx.
Yes please make that video
Hi i would like to boot a rasberry pie via pxe linux or Windows ,and get a few programs installed on a client like pie hole would you be able to make a script that would compile some sort of image with a few added applications would be wonderful...great video
Do a speedtest between exynos 2200 vs A15 !
Excellent..!!!!!! Thank you...!!!!!!
Great. Thanks for the video. Could this be the re-birth of the "Linux Terminal Server Project" ? I used that around year 2000. Loved it. Nowadays everything is Virtual Machines.
LTSP is still alive and had a significant rewrite/update. For RPi look at PiServer from the RaspberryPi Foundation.
@@neils132 THAT is very good to hear. Thanks. I'll certainly look into that as ltsp still keeps a little place in my heart due to nostalgia. In about one year I'll have to equip an orphanage with a dozen terminals and I'm thinking of RPIs with "whatever". Probably Emmabuntu or Roxeo.
Gary we are waiting for your exynos 2200 tests. Please upload asap
Hello, I would like a video tutorial of booting from a Synology NAS, from a linux PC, from a Mac, from a Windows PC... Thank you :)
Fascinating.
Did this about a year ago. I have an ubuntu VM that I point my pi's to.
can you combind the 2 cpus in to one?
Well I have a g4 MacBook 💻 can it be a bootserver?
i would like to know how to boot rpi from the image on my synology nas via network
PXE boot has always only needed the MAC address.
Considering the number of people who get stuck with a rpi that will not boot any more after a power outage or forced down of a frozen rpi, using one as a server does not look like a good idea to me.
Pls consider a NAS. It probably has redundance on board.
I have been running Pi units for years, 24x7, and I have never had a Pi that won't reboot after a power outage. Even if that happens, you just need to setup a new SD card and carry on where you left off.
What if most of the "files" under the /nfs directory are just symbolic links to the server's files,
would only need some extra files/folders with the unique configs for the netbooting rpi4 ?
first problem, how to make all those links and all the sub-folders ... except /tmp and other tmp folders ...
On model b that model with Esther net and that blue headphone jack I need usb boot
we need this for a pi 3
What happens if there are two servers in the same network serving files for same serial number of Raspberry board? How would Raspberry know which sever to connect to?
That would be a bad configuration and the results would be unknown.
@@GaryExplains oh thanks for the reply😅
Yes, show how to boot from nas server.
Doesn't it going over all steps when booting? There should be boot order. If there is no sdcard, then boot from usb and if not, then boot from network.
5:43 Is there a more secure alternative than tftp?
Not that I know of. For more security the best thing to use is UEFI and HTTPS boot. I will likely do a video on UEFI network booting for the Pi at some point.
Just curious, what more secure can you be than having your RP directly cabled to your server (even if a switch/router are in the up/down stream), it is not like you are out on the big bad internet asking remptely to boot it?
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Ummm....professor where are speed test g vidoes
Just make sure that your network pipes are fat!
Speed test g is dead. No video since 3 months
Nah
I prefer the video to make, to be with windows instead
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