FAI for Linux on Apple Silicon?

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, 2025-01-17 at 15:15:01 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:01:07 +0100, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:
> 
>     > Will do as soon as I know how...
>     > Random thought: Would this also run on a more "normal" ARM64 machine?
> What's a normal machine?

One that uses standard principles to start CPU cores, boot an OS,
has standard interfaces to hardware components. 
Something that can run Debian.
To name some fruit: raspberries, maybe bananas, no apples though.
(I'm in doubt RasPis can do PXE though...)

>     > I've been using this for years now ;) but I'm using the signed one, should
>     > I revert this?
> No. If the signed works for you then dont't change it.
> I don't know if the signed grub efi file works without a shim loader before.

Probably I have them all in place, and put them there long ago.
(This reminds me that I've got to find a way that replaces the install instruction
with "boot from local disk" via grub.conf.)

>     >> # chmod a+r /srv/fai/nfsroot/boot/initrd*
> Yep, that a fault. Correct is:
> # chmod a+r /srv/tftp/grub/initrd*

;)

Thanks,

best, Steffen