Hi Curtis,
Out of curiosity has anyone ipxe booted stx from the ISO?
Yes, I have tried a couple of times being able to load both the kernel and initrd from other Linux distros and StarlingX, At the end I was able to boot and install other distros but not StarlingX, here you have all my learning written: https://github.com/xe1gyq/starlingx/blob/master/Packet.md
I'm doing a bit of testing in trying to get stx installed on baremetal packet.com <http://packet.com> nodes and will need to ipxe boot. I thought I'd ask before I went to far into working on it. The easy way of using "kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw" and the ISO via http did not work, ran out of memory, so might have to get a little more complicated. :)
However, whehn working with StarlingX ISO, I run into the issue of not being able to get into the console, Packet Customer Service greatly supported me (Chat with an agent is a great option) and reply back after investigating: <Begin Packet Customer Service> For the ISO issue we would suggest on setting the kernel options. Let him know that our x86 servers require console=ttyS1,115200n8, and our aarch64 servers require console=ttyAMA0,115200 We recommend to try adding 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' on your t1.small server eg. kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw console=ttyS1,115200n8 <End Packet Customer Service> So, I tried that once but got this error: iPXE> kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw console=ttyS1,115200n8 https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk... ok Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081) Due to other stuff going around, I did not follow up, I will try it again this week and see how far I get. Let me know if you want me to help with any specific task. Best Regards Abraham