"The reason Apple's a 3 trillion-dollar company is not because their hardware is amazing. It's because their software is cohesive" Totally agree. I wish more FOSS developers would focus on usability over adding new features. I don't mind running home assistant (and occasionally tearing my hair out) for _my_ smart home but I would absolutely choose something like HomeKit for my parents home since it's so much easier to configure.
Yup - I maintain several hackintoshes for my iphone using non-techy family for that same reason. The integration and yes 'cohesiveness' makes my life a hell of a lot simpler, so I have more time to muck about with raspberry pi's and homeservers :)
@@user-rc9jf8ng2k There are occasions where Linux gets things done very well. For instance, Inkscape has long-been an excellent alternative to Illustrator, but the UI has been...terrible. So bad UI in a product aimed at artists/designers. The 1.0 release adds a total overhaul of the UI, but was totally broken on my distro. Alpha release 1.2 was mentioned on Twitter so I mentioned my issues with 1.0 and an Inkscape dev reached out to me and told me to test 1.2 and let him know if it's better. They nailed it, and now a very powerful program has become very good looking. GIMP is a similar story with it's updated UI.
@@user-rc9jf8ng2k ugh... no one is keeping you out. Be the change you want to see. what does it mean to "focus on usability" and what will the "linux community never agree to"? "we're not allowed in" You can pay companies for support on Linux, maybe for desktop that's not so widespread, but for company stuff, it is very much a thing.
This is really incredible! I've always had the same hatred towards managing a lot of SD cards scattered around the house but I lacked the knowledge about netboot and was kind of overwhelmed by all the information online when I first tried it. Thank you for these lovely rants!
This is why teaching STEM is so important ESPECIALLY the open source side. Open source depends on community and the more young people we educate in this field, the better off humanity will be.
Amazing!!! In this internet world thar 90% of tutorials and ideas is a just copy and paste from other guy, i found your new, fresh and cool content! thanks for sharing
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Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just found this channel looking for 100G network cards. Saw a bunch of really simplified and accessible concept explained in that video and clicked on this one. That's it I am subscribing. I've spent too much time around large scaled data centers that I no longer know how to even make up cheap and easy solutions. Now that I bought a house and get the grind to bring a bunch of home automation, I am finding out how insanely expensive it is to have automated HVAC or humidity tuned.
Whenever I start a new project, I just need to wait about a week and Wendell will show me everything I'm doing wrong lol PS, still waiting on that Openshift walkthrough
Exactly the thing that i am currently working on. But instead of copying all of the root fs for each rpi my plan is to have a single read only one and on top of that mount a rw overlay fs for each rpi. That way i dont have to do updates to base system of each rpi and it becomes even more easier to manage.
The thing that makes its software amazing is the cohesiveness of all the software, and how it essentially is some form of black magic we don’t even know yet.
They say that when an idea needs to exist many people are thinking about it. I’m working on netbooting my pis that are part of a Kubernetes cluster as well. I found someone selling a tutorial (that’s new) and many fragmented tutorials to get it working. Was going to write up my own and here we are. Might still do mine. The world can always use more info.
Can’t wait to go home and try to figure this out. Only down side is my nas is on the same box as my main pi hole and my ras pi is backup dns, so if one box goes down it takes out my other. I just need more hardware!
At 11:00 I think there was a misspeak. The tftpboot folder contains the serial number. The pxe folder should be the config where you can name the file whatever. I believe, anyway. The tftpboot folder was mentioned twice for the two different types of files.
my man, great video. Have you thought about collabing that ansible video with jeff geerling? Guy loves his pies and wrote a hell of a good book on ansible
Now you only need to get the NFS file secured. And you also might want to use something like ubuntu server, because Raspbian has a lot of weird quirks, like not having a separate repo for security updates, that burn you if you want to do a proper setup.
Cool idea that many have already done. However for people who are familiar with the components and not this exact scenario. The "Write Up" lacks many details which is required for this to work. Expect to spend more time watching other videos piecing together the missing bits.
sonos is simply superior. moodeos + decent pi dac + low noise power supply + bookshelf speakers can get better audio but sonos has room correction + better streaming and can also do stereo all while looking clean and elegant. Besides pi's have always had a supply chain problem akin to GPU's so my 3B+ is sitting at the office with usb dac + power amplifier + two speakers until i decide there is a worthy portable usecase.
You have no idea how timely this was. My main rig has a weird hardware error (windows works unless I run Prime95, linux throws hardware-error/kernel-panic at boot) so I was looking towards setting up a RPi4 on remote boot off my TrueNAS to carry me over while the machine is in repair. Most internet guides are crap, not telling you why you do what you do. Thanks!
in dhcp server bind the mac address to an IP. In nfs limit by IP address. If you have a layer2 switch the switch can also enforce this to prevent something from just assuming the rpi IP address.
Lol, just came from the main channel. We need an "I'm feeling lucky!" button right that takes us straight to this video from the main channel video intro
Great one! But honestly I'd go for iscsi boot if possible, it's just faster and more reliable. And yes if you have the rootfs on a CoW filesystem like btrfs, zfs and even xfs, you can just copy the folder with cp --reflink=always and benefit from "deduplication". Reflinks are the new hardlinks that point to the same data on disk, but with the twist that the files can be modified individually.
Wendell... in your forum post, you skipped over the step on how to enable tftp server on truenas.... unless that's automatic? Is there any configuration necessary? Thanks fort this.. very cool stuff
@@Level1Techs That's all there is to it? Simply turn it on? then the folders you create do the rest? How does the Tftp service know which folders to look for to serve up the boot files?
Raspberry Pi 4's are capable of booting via HTTP. It uses this to boot the Pi Imager (set BOOT_ORDER to 0xf71). What would be nice is to HTTP boot a mini boot image that then would mount your nfs mountpoint. This would avoid any dhcp/tftp mucking about. I just can't figure out how to create that initial kernel image. Hmph. Stil WIP.
Nice video. I am moving from a power hungry server to raspberry pi to save costs. So, the x86 server is put to sleep during night. Thus i dont have any NFS server running. My solution was to use a usb ssd with the pi with ZFS. I am able to snapshot the dataset and send to the server. So, the server always has a good copy.
"I assume if you're doing this with raw linux, you know what you're doing" Well, I actually came here to learn more about it; and through trial and error, figure out what crosses over. Anything I lookup just yields results for PXE installation of linux, but not how to have a remote boot image that loads into, say, a ram-disk. I'm not a linux noob, but more familiar with windows on the IT side. Any suggestions?
Could you guys potentially create a walk through using unraid? I'm having some issues trying to get it to work. I'm using a CIFS share because I had issues with NFS from unraid, but I think I will try again with nfs
>The reason Apple's a 3 trillion-dollar company is not because their hardware is amazing. It's because their software is... uh... Good god that made my day. 😭 Thanks Wendell
Wendell hit the nail perfectly: macOS is incredibly consistent, both visual and in behaviour. I hope FOSS ecosystem will ever reach that level of consistency. ... probably right after systemd grows a new display server, web browser and an office suite.
@@MoraFermi I've been diving into Linux after the pandemic hit and I have to agree, the biggest problem with Linux are all the compartmentalized aspects of applications and distros. Don't get me wrong, I understand why advanced users like it as they can customize as they see fit but there needs to be a total ideological overhaul to have a group of people to centralize the different areas into a more streamlined approach to make it easier for every day people to use. If people want to be elitist, that's fine but if they want to grow market share and those elitist can capitalize in their abilities to fix things, that would be better for everyone.
Looking forward to working on this project. Today I run 5 pi4s with Ubuntu 20.0lts running a service on each pi, services include asterisk, 2xpiholes, homebridge and home assistant. I run a number of vlans and dhcp is handled by my draytek device. I already advertise option 66 for booting my Cisco 7962 phones. At the moment all the pis backup via nfs to a Synology nas. Network booting sounds like the ideal, centralise the file systems and push out the processing. I am wondering if I have my warm standby pis if I could dhcp assign each pi to a pool of addresses that can access the nfs area, then boot using a configured static IP address set in the root for each system, that way if I pi failed I would only need to rename the boot folder to the serial # of the replacement pi. And not have to mess about changing the dhcp config so the new pis MAC address linked to the old pis IP address. I will have to see if the boot progresses will stand having his IP address change mid PXE boot.
Note that if you want to run Kubernetes on your raspberry pi's you have to configure iSCSI instead of NFS for the mount Kubernetes works in, and it needs to be mounted before docker service is started. Kubernetes gets butthurt if its work mount isn't a block device.
Couldn't you just use a separate iSCSI share for kubernetes work mount? Why would it be inside the raspberry pi OS image? I'd much rather separate the two
I wonder... if we had many Pi and most of them were running the same OS, I wonder if it would be worth setting up dedup as many pis could take up a lot of space. also oddity my network boot screen (without SD card) looks like the raspi imager ... says its trying to boot from the network. .... and, we have lift off (forgot to start the TFTP service in truenas scale)
thx for this wendell you a wizard , how fast is the IO overhead or network overhead on nfs compared to samsung 3.0 ssd usb stick with the usb bootloader hack
I miss teksyndicate so much with all 4 of you guys. You Pistol Logan and Quan. It's never been the same. Both channels aren't half as good as the original.
Let’s be honest, it was always Wendell that made it. Logan was a good host with Wendell feeding him decent info. Pistol and Quan wouldn’t even qualify on the spectrum of good content making. Logan is going down a deep dark hole, he’s less approachable every year or so I think to check on his channel
So there's an initial boot image loaded that requires router configuration? Can the SD card be used for that part? Or a USB stick on a PC. Probably a good bit of figuring out to get that setup, but... If my server can boot from a UEFI imagine on a USB stick, I imagine it could have a script on it too. Likely the same for any device that has USB flash back/BIOS recovery mode. Probably device specific to the put of being outside a one-size-fits-all tutorial though.
If I understand correctly then yes, you can leave the boot partition on your sdcard and modify you cmdline like Wendell. I do this for usb booting btw, since when I started doing this, it wasn't yet supported.
Ok, ok. I love the idea of network boting the rPi. Pi's often are thrown in a dark corner, without much oversight. This makes the entire setup super flexible, as you can easily create backups, try every Linux distro under the sun, and you also get "some" security benefits. But keep in mind, you can probably flash the u-boot bootloader of the rPi from a sophisticated enough attack.
im looking for the opposite , having a rasp pi w ssd to pxe ipxe boot on my pc on it ... too mutch probleme w usb card , corrupt file or no boot on rescue usb key every time i have to find friend to made a new bootable usb key w windows for rescue my self ,every time i got windows on usb key was corrup or unbootable after a year ... so any script or iso to flash for raspb is welcome here to made my pc bootable in pxe ipxe w my rasp ..
I had better luck with iScsi root on my nas. With symbology nfs the system will boot but complain some file permission is not correct and cannot reboot.
The audio jack on the raspberry pi is unusable, it has horrible current noise, it’s very audible, I’ve tried that eventually I connected JBL Pebbles because it come with USB DAC.
Something I've been wondering for a while is if there's some sort of happy medium between the image being completely on the SD card and netbooting. I'd love to remotely manage and deploy images onto a RPi (or other SBC), but not have the device go down if the router happens to go down. Though, I guess since the example used PoE, it's kinda moot, but I digress. Wireless image updates for SBCs. Saves network bandwidth, uses local compute where possible, and remotely/centrally managable/deployable. Kinda like firmware updates within the LAN, but for Linux devices.
17:29 For me the deal breaker was when he said NFS is slower than booting from the SD card. I mean, it is great for centralized management but penalizing speed on a device that small is a no go. Also having a NFS folder there accessible for hackers to audit is a consideration if you were planning on deploying a ton of Pi to strangers.
This is very useful information, but I'm a bit concerned about the EEPROM if one is to be truly worried about persistently compromised hardware. Is setting eeprom_write_protect enough?
Well yeah, probably not instantly (i.e. if something is cached or already running it won't immediately stop) but as soon as something tries to access a file on "disk" it's going to break.
"serverless" anything just means you're paying someone else for their server. Probably thinking more along the lines of "Company A wants to write Data Mining App B, but not pay to buy Server C, so they go serverless on AWS, Azure, etc... and, basically, rent Server D"
Jesus.... Almost 9 minutes had passed when he almost started to do it. 😂 Even he says: "But this is not the purpose of this video" like 3 times. Focus dude. FFS.
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We need a Level1Rants channel so Wendell can finally get it all out.
I support this.
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"The reason Apple's a 3 trillion-dollar company is not because their hardware is amazing. It's because their software is cohesive"
Totally agree. I wish more FOSS developers would focus on usability over adding new features. I don't mind running home assistant (and occasionally tearing my hair out) for _my_ smart home but I would absolutely choose something like HomeKit for my parents home since it's so much easier to configure.
Yup - I maintain several hackintoshes for my iphone using non-techy family for that same reason. The integration and yes 'cohesiveness' makes my life a hell of a lot simpler, so I have more time to muck about with raspberry pi's and homeservers :)
I feel like the Linux community will never agree to this. It's a exclusive club and we're not allowed in unless we work for it.
@@user-rc9jf8ng2k Linux users only have a problem with ease of use if it inconveniences the advanced users.
@@user-rc9jf8ng2k There are occasions where Linux gets things done very well.
For instance, Inkscape has long-been an excellent alternative to Illustrator, but the UI has been...terrible. So bad UI in a product aimed at artists/designers. The 1.0 release adds a total overhaul of the UI, but was totally broken on my distro. Alpha release 1.2 was mentioned on Twitter so I mentioned my issues with 1.0 and an Inkscape dev reached out to me and told me to test 1.2 and let him know if it's better. They nailed it, and now a very powerful program has become very good looking. GIMP is a similar story with it's updated UI.
@@user-rc9jf8ng2k ugh... no one is keeping you out. Be the change you want to see. what does it mean to "focus on usability" and what will the "linux community never agree to"? "we're not allowed in" You can pay companies for support on Linux, maybe for desktop that's not so widespread, but for company stuff, it is very much a thing.
This is really incredible! I've always had the same hatred towards managing a lot of SD cards scattered around the house but I lacked the knowledge about netboot and was kind of overwhelmed by all the information online when I first tried it. Thank you for these lovely rants!
This is why teaching STEM is so important ESPECIALLY the open source side. Open source depends on community and the more young people we educate in this field, the better off humanity will be.
Wow, this had a real pre-Tek Syndicate blowup feel. Well, except we see Wendell's face. Thanks Wendell. Good times... again.
the Mountain Dew can and unenthusiastic facial expressions make me feel at home. Thank you for everything you've taught me over the years Wendel.
I got a large amount of old rPis recently and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks for the video!
Amazing!!! In this internet world thar 90% of tutorials and ideas is a just copy and paste from other guy, i found your new, fresh and cool content! thanks for sharing
Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just found this channel looking for 100G network cards. Saw a bunch of really simplified and accessible concept explained in that video and clicked on this one. That's it I am subscribing. I've spent too much time around large scaled data centers that I no longer know how to even make up cheap and easy solutions. Now that I bought a house and get the grind to bring a bunch of home automation, I am finding out how insanely expensive it is to have automated HVAC or humidity tuned.
Whenever I start a new project, I just need to wait about a week and Wendell will show me everything I'm doing wrong lol
PS, still waiting on that Openshift walkthrough
Exactly the thing that i am currently working on. But instead of copying all of the root fs for each rpi my plan is to have a single read only one and on top of that mount a rw overlay fs for each rpi. That way i dont have to do updates to base system of each rpi and it becomes even more easier to manage.
Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit is official! Awesome, now we can make even overpowered setups
I was worried you were about to say Apple's software was amazing. 'Uhhh, very cohesive' is a perfect description.
The thing that makes its software amazing is the cohesiveness of all the software, and how it essentially is some form of black magic we don’t even know yet.
I'd love to see a video going over the setup of a server for this, and other computers.
They say that when an idea needs to exist many people are thinking about it. I’m working on netbooting my pis that are part of a Kubernetes cluster as well. I found someone selling a tutorial (that’s new) and many fragmented tutorials to get it working. Was going to write up my own and here we are. Might still do mine. The world can always use more info.
You can try using iscsi and do a write-up on that then ;)
Can’t wait to go home and try to figure this out. Only down side is my nas is on the same box as my main pi hole and my ras pi is backup dns, so if one box goes down it takes out my other. I just need more hardware!
When I found out i have a 3B V1.2 but not a 3B+ and I can't actually do this.
When I see a video with Wendell. "My body is ready"
At 11:00 I think there was a misspeak. The tftpboot folder contains the serial number. The pxe folder should be the config where you can name the file whatever. I believe, anyway. The tftpboot folder was mentioned twice for the two different types of files.
my man, great video. Have you thought about collabing that ansible video with jeff geerling? Guy loves his pies and wrote a hell of a good book on ansible
Now you only need to get the NFS file secured.
And you also might want to use something like ubuntu server, because Raspbian has a lot of weird quirks, like not having a separate repo for security updates, that burn you if you want to do a proper setup.
Cool idea that many have already done. However for people who are familiar with the components and not this exact scenario. The "Write Up" lacks many details which is required for this to work. Expect to spend more time watching other videos piecing together the missing bits.
I'd buy a recipe themed book with Wendell and Jeff Geelings face on it. Kinda like the CCNA command booklet.
An SD card is faster than NFS? When did that happen?
sonos is simply superior. moodeos + decent pi dac + low noise power supply + bookshelf speakers can get better audio but sonos has room correction + better streaming and can also do stereo all while looking clean and elegant. Besides pi's have always had a supply chain problem akin to GPU's so my 3B+ is sitting at the office with usb dac + power amplifier + two speakers until i decide there is a worthy portable usecase.
how do you feel about that CO2 logger? Was looking to buy one
this is why i patreon
You have no idea how timely this was. My main rig has a weird hardware error (windows works unless I run Prime95, linux throws hardware-error/kernel-panic at boot) so I was looking towards setting up a RPi4 on remote boot off my TrueNAS to carry me over while the machine is in repair. Most internet guides are crap, not telling you why you do what you do. Thanks!
They now have a supported / released 64 bit img file from raspberry pi. This could be nice for more IoT device processing
How do you protect the filesystem from something else on your network sniffing out these images?
ACL on firewall running on file server that will block tftp and maybe nfs ports for devices that are not raspberry pi
in dhcp server bind the mac address to an IP. In nfs limit by IP address. If you have a layer2 switch the switch can also enforce this to prevent something from just assuming the rpi IP address.
Lol, just came from the main channel. We need an "I'm feeling lucky!" button right that takes us straight to this video from the main channel video intro
Great one! But honestly I'd go for iscsi boot if possible, it's just faster and more reliable.
And yes if you have the rootfs on a CoW filesystem like btrfs, zfs and even xfs, you can just copy the folder with cp --reflink=always and benefit from "deduplication". Reflinks are the new hardlinks that point to the same data on disk, but with the twist that the files can be modified individually.
Wendell... in your forum post, you skipped over the step on how to enable tftp server on truenas.... unless that's automatic? Is there any configuration necessary?
Thanks fort this.. very cool stuff
oh, its under services. Maybe its not on by default? Its where you enable SSH for example. one click
@@Level1Techs That's all there is to it? Simply turn it on? then the folders you create do the rest? How does the Tftp service know which folders to look for to serve up the boot files?
This is great! (restarting for better comprehension)
I have that same O11 case. I really love it.
Raspberry Pi 4's are capable of booting via HTTP. It uses this to boot the Pi Imager (set BOOT_ORDER to 0xf71). What would be nice is to HTTP boot a mini boot image that then would mount your nfs mountpoint. This would avoid any dhcp/tftp mucking about.
I just can't figure out how to create that initial kernel image. Hmph. Stil WIP.
Amazing! Have been looking for the info for some time.
Nice video. I am moving from a power hungry server to raspberry pi to save costs. So, the x86 server is put to sleep during night. Thus i dont have any NFS server running.
My solution was to use a usb ssd with the pi with ZFS. I am able to snapshot the dataset and send to the server. So, the server always has a good copy.
Wendell is my Spirit Animal.
Thanks!
"I assume if you're doing this with raw linux, you know what you're doing" Well, I actually came here to learn more about it; and through trial and error, figure out what crosses over. Anything I lookup just yields results for PXE installation of linux, but not how to have a remote boot image that loads into, say, a ram-disk. I'm not a linux noob, but more familiar with windows on the IT side. Any suggestions?
Any advice for an off-grid, off-network standalone system? Star-link is still a ways away for my rural area...
In a Palpatine voice when talking to pfSense: “Initiate option 66”!
The question I would have is can you get a tos link or hdmi for higher sound quality output
Would love to see this tutorial with iscsi instead of nfs
good idea
Absolutely based on Copyleft too 😍
Could you guys potentially create a walk through using unraid? I'm having some issues trying to get it to work. I'm using a CIFS share because I had issues with NFS from unraid, but I think I will try again with nfs
>The reason Apple's a 3 trillion-dollar company is not because their hardware is amazing. It's because their software is... uh...
Good god that made my day. 😭 Thanks Wendell
Wendell hit the nail perfectly: macOS is incredibly consistent, both visual and in behaviour. I hope FOSS ecosystem will ever reach that level of consistency.
... probably right after systemd grows a new display server, web browser and an office suite.
@@MoraFermi I've been diving into Linux after the pandemic hit and I have to agree, the biggest problem with Linux are all the compartmentalized aspects of applications and distros.
Don't get me wrong, I understand why advanced users like it as they can customize as they see fit but there needs to be a total ideological overhaul to have a group of people to centralize the different areas into a more streamlined approach to make it easier for every day people to use. If people want to be elitist, that's fine but if they want to grow market share and those elitist can capitalize in their abilities to fix things, that would be better for everyone.
Looking forward to working on this project. Today I run 5 pi4s with Ubuntu 20.0lts running a service on each pi, services include asterisk, 2xpiholes, homebridge and home assistant. I run a number of vlans and dhcp is handled by my draytek device. I already advertise option 66 for booting my Cisco 7962 phones. At the moment all the pis backup via nfs to a Synology nas. Network booting sounds like the ideal, centralise the file systems and push out the processing.
I am wondering if I have my warm standby pis if I could dhcp assign each pi to a pool of addresses that can access the nfs area, then boot using a configured static IP address set in the root for each system, that way if I pi failed I would only need to rename the boot folder to the serial # of the replacement pi. And not have to mess about changing the dhcp config so the new pis MAC address linked to the old pis IP address.
I will have to see if the boot progresses will stand having his IP address change mid PXE boot.
This is nice. I gonna trying with my openmediavault setup. 🤔👍
Note that if you want to run Kubernetes on your raspberry pi's you have to configure iSCSI instead of NFS for the mount Kubernetes works in, and it needs to be mounted before docker service is started. Kubernetes gets butthurt if its work mount isn't a block device.
Couldn't you just use a separate iSCSI share for kubernetes work mount? Why would it be inside the raspberry pi OS image? I'd much rather separate the two
ostree looks like it would work really well with this
Hi can you please show how to set up a RPI network boot environment using a Ubuntu server to store the RPI boot images
I wonder... if we had many Pi and most of them were running the same OS, I wonder if it would be worth setting up dedup as many pis could take up a lot of space.
also oddity my network boot screen (without SD card) looks like the raspi imager ... says its trying to boot from the network. .... and, we have lift off (forgot to start the TFTP service in truenas scale)
great video... looking forward to some ansible examples
Pixie Boot and Citrix provisioning services does this.
woohoo! Level1linux videos!
Thank you for the article. On a side note, you sound like neil degrasse tyson.
thx for this wendell you a wizard , how fast is the IO overhead or network overhead on nfs compared to samsung 3.0 ssd usb stick with the usb bootloader hack
i mean does it work at network speeds ? read write speeds to the share ?
i really got to try something like this but I'm just tired from work
hi
you can also find the Pi serial number with cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial | sed 's/.*: //'
but it's padded with zeros to a length of 16.
Love to see a video of you doing something with something like pixiecore or maas.
Great tutorial sir
I miss teksyndicate so much with all 4 of you guys. You Pistol Logan and Quan. It's never been the same. Both channels aren't half as good as the original.
Let’s be honest, it was always Wendell that made it. Logan was a good host with Wendell feeding him decent info. Pistol and Quan wouldn’t even qualify on the spectrum of good content making. Logan is going down a deep dark hole, he’s less approachable every year or so I think to check on his channel
Would love to tinker with this stuff, too bad you can't buy a raspberry pi at the moment :(
Just when 64bit goes live. How'd he know!
So there's an initial boot image loaded that requires router configuration? Can the SD card be used for that part? Or a USB stick on a PC. Probably a good bit of figuring out to get that setup, but... If my server can boot from a UEFI imagine on a USB stick, I imagine it could have a script on it too. Likely the same for any device that has USB flash back/BIOS recovery mode. Probably device specific to the put of being outside a one-size-fits-all tutorial though.
If I understand correctly then yes, you can leave the boot partition on your sdcard and modify you cmdline like Wendell. I do this for usb booting btw, since when I started doing this, it wasn't yet supported.
Ok, ok. I love the idea of network boting the rPi. Pi's often are thrown in a dark corner, without much oversight. This makes the entire setup super flexible, as you can easily create backups, try every Linux distro under the sun, and you also get "some" security benefits.
But keep in mind, you can probably flash the u-boot bootloader of the rPi from a sophisticated enough attack.
Holy hell, it's so nice to be a nerd.
_engagement_
im looking for the opposite ,
having a rasp pi w ssd to pxe ipxe boot on my pc on it ...
too mutch probleme w usb card , corrupt file or no boot on rescue usb key
every time i have to find friend to made a new bootable usb key w windows
for rescue my self ,every time i got windows on usb key was corrup or unbootable after a year ...
so any script or iso to flash for raspb is welcome here to made my pc bootable in pxe ipxe w my rasp ..
I had better luck with iScsi root on my nas. With symbology nfs the system will boot but complain some file permission is not correct and cannot reboot.
Danke!
Does Netboot require ethernet, or Wi-Fi can do it too?
The audio jack on the raspberry pi is unusable, it has horrible current noise, it’s very audible, I’ve tried that eventually I connected JBL Pebbles because it come with USB DAC.
this is super cool
Something I've been wondering for a while is if there's some sort of happy medium between the image being completely on the SD card and netbooting.
I'd love to remotely manage and deploy images onto a RPi (or other SBC), but not have the device go down if the router happens to go down.
Though, I guess since the example used PoE, it's kinda moot, but I digress.
Wireless image updates for SBCs. Saves network bandwidth, uses local compute where possible, and remotely/centrally managable/deployable. Kinda like firmware updates within the LAN, but for Linux devices.
I believe some of this is what ansible is capable of.
17:29 For me the deal breaker was when he said NFS is slower than booting from the SD card. I mean, it is great for centralized management but penalizing speed on a device that small is a no go. Also having a NFS folder there accessible for hackers to audit is a consideration if you were planning on deploying a ton of Pi to strangers.
@10:50 I call my pool Dozer just to be different....
The first six minutes of this video can be skipped.
This is very useful information, but I'm a bit concerned about the EEPROM if one is to be truly worried about persistently compromised hardware. Is setting eeprom_write_protect enough?
yep.
One question: will the Raspberry Pi stop working if the boot server restarts?
Well yeah, probably not instantly (i.e. if something is cached or already running it won't immediately stop) but as soon as something tries to access a file on "disk" it's going to break.
very nice!
Is this similar to Serverless architecture?
"serverless" anything just means you're paying someone else for their server. Probably thinking more along the lines of "Company A wants to write Data Mining App B, but not pay to buy Server C, so they go serverless on AWS, Azure, etc... and, basically, rent Server D"
Too bad it’s not possible to have an encrypted / secure connection.. afaik it’s just straight up dump UDP with our ssl/tls
I'm interested in what the CO2 level monitor is. Anyone has any idea?
Just found it: Hydrofarm APCEM2 Autopilot Desktop CO2 Monitor & Data Logger, Data, White/Blue
Nice! More Linux please.
Noiiiiice
My mind has been blown: I always said f-stab, never even considered FS Tab.
It is to tiny to watch,zoom on interface
This is the final boss of Linux.
Too bad raspberry pi 3b+ is like 125 dollars rn
Had to get a german400 cause everything else is out of stock
The only sad thing about this tut is that you can’t get a rpi4
You can not get to further a due if you like. 😊
Execute option 66
6:05 (30% of the way into this video, quote: "first step is...." Sheesh, i understand the need for income, but that's a lot of overhead!
you should put your autopilot into hooman mode :)
Repeal the DMCA!!!!
Jesus.... Almost 9 minutes had passed when he almost started to do it. 😂
Even he says: "But this is not the purpose of this video" like 3 times.
Focus dude.
FFS.
Great! I’m super excited to try this!
Oh wait. All my pi’s are connected over wifi.
You should do a colab with Jeff Geerling for the Ansible video :-)
I can write bash scripts!