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protoman3000today at 5:27 AM1 replyview on HN

Pretty cool! You could also boot into an ephemeral minimal initrd that displays a selection menu instead of doing it in iPXE. That would grab the new kernel and initrd from the network and kexecs it without reboot.


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theandrewbaileytoday at 10:09 AM

> You could also boot into an ephemeral minimal initrd

Wouldn't that need a local disk?

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