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| author | Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@alpinelinux.org> | 2018-04-07 23:31:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@alpinelinux.org> | 2018-04-07 23:31:43 +0000 |
| commit | 0995c816219a8f6c700e58e6bcca32331cd5529c (patch) | |
| tree | 472f03f204fca0a319d815a693ab17dd7c6d363a | |
| parent | f4bf0065229c50b3dd3c8f60f21158ca51d145f7 (diff) | |
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Welcome to the Alpine Linux netboot server. Netboot provides kernel initramfs and modloop images to boot over the network/internet. Booting from netboot is provided by the IPXE binaries available in alpine-ipxe `apk add alpine-ipxe` or from -[this location](alpine-ipxe) for x86_64. +[this location](alpine-ipxe) (x86_64 and aarch64). ## Boot script @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ build your own version of [ipxe](https://ipxe.org). Some cloud providers (ie [packet.net](https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/custom-ipxe)) support the loading of custom ipxe scripts/payloads to install an operating system. You can chainload one of the ipxe loaders from [alpine-ipxe](alpine-ipxe). -Don't load the boot.ipxe script directly as image verifications will fail. +Loading our default boot script from another firware will disable image +verification. ## Images @@ -36,22 +37,26 @@ Current available images are: ## Signed images Alpine Linux images are signed and can be verified only by making use of -[alpine-ipxe](alpine-ipxe). Using another ipxe loader will not trust our -signatures and will result in failed boot. +[alpine-ipxe](alpine-ipxe). Using another ipxe loader will disable verification. ## Boot options ### BIOS (x86_64) -* [pxe.lkrn](alpine-ipxe/ipxe.lkrn) - Linux kernel image that can be used by a bootloader/qemu -* [pxe.pxe](alpine-ipxe/ipxe.pxe) - PXE image for chainloading from a PXE environment -* [undionly.kpxe](alpine-ipxe/undionly.kpxe) - PXE image with UNDI support -* [ipxe.iso](alpine-ipxe/ipxe.iso) - ISO image to boot from any regular system -* [ipxe.usb](alpine-ipxe/ipxe.usb) - disk image to write to (USB) block device +* [pxe.lkrn](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.lkrn) - Linux kernel image that can be used by a bootloader/qemu +* [pxe.pxe](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.pxe) - PXE image for chainloading from a PXE environment +* [undionly.kpxe](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/undionly.kpxe) - PXE image with UNDI support +* [ipxe.iso](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.iso) - ISO image to boot from any regular system +* [ipxe.usb](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.usb) - disk image to write to (USB) block device ### UEFI (x86_64) -* [ipxe.efi](alpine-ipxe/ipxe.efi) UEFI executable +* [ipxe.efi](alpine-ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.efi) UEFI executable + +### UEFI (aarch64) + +* [snp.efi](alpine-ipxe/aarch64/snp.efi) UEFI executable + ## Updates |