Dell PowerEdge R630

Hey @Insurgo,

mainly because of the desire to boot from M2 but also for security reasons I wanted to get LinuxBoot on this thing.

I learned the hard way that the linuxboot repo is rather a collection/ showcase of PoCs to convey the concept and not really something one simply builds in an evening.

Followed along Trammel Hudson’s post and got the stock rom extracted but when trying to build this the headaches started.

From your post in Heads Testing I can see that the board was still there less than 2 years ago although UNTESTED. But that’s way better and more recent than anything I dealt with to this point.

The story is known to me only very vaguely that linuxboot and heads emerged from NERF and I never got my feet wet with either of them.

Tomorrow I’ll look into how to build heads and when the board fell out precisely but maybe you’ve got some general advice for me? Anything to be wary of?
Any thoughts or recommendations would be much appreciated really.

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