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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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Just for my understanding when they boot such a server, where does it get it's operating system from? Over the network from a different computer which has a hard drive or some read only ROM on the server or what?
Click the first link in the article, in the older post they talk about their stboot bootloader. It does what you suspect, loads the OS image from a different computer which has signed base images.