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by br33d
Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:42 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: PXE boot before microSD
Replies: 7
Views: 1163

Re: PXE boot before microSD

Expanding on mikerr's suggestion earlier, by enabling GPIO selection of what to boot from it should be possible to add a microcontroller supervisor which can disable SD Card booting and enable PXE booting at initial power-on. If PXE booting is not indicated as successful to the supervisor that can ...
by br33d
Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:09 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: PXE boot before microSD
Replies: 7
Views: 1163

Re: PXE boot before microSD

2. Alternatively via software: renaming /boot/bootcode.bin (which can be done on the pi itself) would also make it failover into pxe at next boot. I would like to go the software route. I've been thinking along the lines of your second suggestion. I was thinking that I would always PXE boot (never ...
by br33d
Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:49 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: PXE boot before microSD
Replies: 7
Views: 1163

Re: PXE boot before microSD

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/README.md Yes, I had read that before posting. From that doc the answer seems to be that you cannot control boot order. The closest you can get is to use hardware pins to enable/disable different boot options, but even then th...
by br33d
Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:32 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: PXE boot before microSD
Replies: 7
Views: 1163

PXE boot before microSD

I realize this has been asked before in a different form, but I couldn't quite follow the discussion. Is there a way to make the board try to boot from PXE before it boots from the microSD? I have a cluster of remote raspberry pis, and i'd like to occasionally reinstall them using PXE. Specifically,...

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