Not to sound incredibly lazy (because I am), but is there anything off the shelf that does this? Anyone doing something similar would also be great -- I saw some UEFI-in-Rust projects recently so maybe it's not too hard to hack through myself.
That said, my original need for this was on Hetzner, and what I did instead was actually completely automate their reset setup (thankfully they have an API to that), so I have a solution, but I would much rather if I could prebake and load images much easier.
I think these days Hetzner has much more UEFI support across it's dedicated server fleet.
Side note: Every time I see tinkerbell and other relatively new PXE boot projecs and it's set of tools I feel relief, then dig in, then feel dread again around iPXE.
Side note 2: I really want to do two things:
1. Load OSes from the network easily
2. Run the OS in RAM (ECC)
I feel like it would take my server management experience to the next level -- I've spent an inordinate amount of time messing with Hetzner USB add-ons and Alpine to try to get things to work, but it wasn't reliable (it worked, but wasn't reliable).
That said, my original need for this was on Hetzner, and what I did instead was actually completely automate their reset setup (thankfully they have an API to that), so I have a solution, but I would much rather if I could prebake and load images much easier.
I think these days Hetzner has much more UEFI support across it's dedicated server fleet.
Side note: Every time I see tinkerbell and other relatively new PXE boot projecs and it's set of tools I feel relief, then dig in, then feel dread again around iPXE.
Side note 2: I really want to do two things:
1. Load OSes from the network easily
2. Run the OS in RAM (ECC)
I feel like it would take my server management experience to the next level -- I've spent an inordinate amount of time messing with Hetzner USB add-ons and Alpine to try to get things to work, but it wasn't reliable (it worked, but wasn't reliable).