12-22-2015, 08:19 AM
You should be able to pull a filesystem down over a network connection with the kernel or something like that. I've never done it but I don't think the bootloader has to be involved if you don't want it to. I don't know if there are (dis)advantages to either approach but take a look at this.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation...fsroot.txt
There may be other network boot methods which use Linux alone, surely bootloader support is unnecessary.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation...fsroot.txt
There may be other network boot methods which use Linux alone, surely bootloader support is unnecessary.