Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Re: RaspberyPi 4 network boot from TFTP - does it work?

I do run a couple of openbsd instances on Rpi4 and CM4 that boot over the network.
My dnsmasq and nfs server is on linux. However, rarpd and bootparams run from Openbsd server.
I had trouble getting bootparams running off of the linux machine.

All the steps are fairly straightforward. You do have to be careful about using NFS v3/v4 and using TCP vs UDP.
Some combinations will not work.
Make sure the NFS server has low latency otherwise commands will fail abruptly. 
 

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM Chris Narkiewicz <hello@ezaquarii.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm considering a netbootable device for a project and RPI 4
documentation claims to support network boot. Some posts suggest that
booting over PXE is supported.

Before I dump money on hardware, does anyone have experience with
autoinstall on RPi 4 (or Compute Module 4) over network and could
confirm that it works or doesn't work?

Best regards,
Chris Narkiewicz

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