Package make-initrd-netboot: Information

    Source package: make-initrd-netboot
    Version: 0.5-alt1
    Latest version according to Repology
    Build time:  Oct 22, 2025, 11:01 AM in the task #397925
    Category: System/Base
    Report package bug
    License: GPLv2+
    Summary: Netboot feature for make-initrd
    Description: 
    Make-initrd netboot feature to do special type of network boot:
    1) Get ip address via DHCP (for all ethernet adapters)
    2) Mount tmpfs as root filesystem (with <netboot_fs_size> size)
    3) Download and untar <netboot_url>/common.tar.zst
    4) Download and untar <netboot_url>/<IP_ADDRESS>.tar.zst
    
    Ethernet module should be added to MODULES_PRELOAD.

    List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
    make-initrd-netboot (noarch)




    Last changed


    Oct. 21, 2025 Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy 0.5-alt1
    - Changed the feature to use chrony instead of ntpdate.
    - Fixed service order for make-initrd >= 2.36.0.
    Sept. 12, 2022 Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy 0.4.4-alt1
    - Fixed trivial bug introduced in the previous change (ALT#43752).
    Aug. 10, 2022 Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy 0.4.3-alt1
    - Added forced time synchronization to the boot sequence.