0.2.0 - boot the target from an image on a card
A KVM lets you see a broken machine. It does not fix it. To fix it you usually need something to boot from, and that has always meant walking to the machine with a USB stick.
Not any more. Put disk images on the device's microSD card, pick one in the new Media tab, and the target sees a USB drive with that image in it. It boots from it like it would from a stick you plugged in yourself.
Two things to know in this version:
- the card is served read-only, because this board cannot write a microSD reliably, so you prepare images in a card reader;
- the card must be FAT32, and one image can be at most 4 GB, which is a FAT32 limit rather than ours.
Reads run at 4 MHz, about 1.5 MB/s. A heavy graphical image takes minutes to boot; a small rescue image takes about a minute. Higher clock rates fail on this chip, so slow and correct is what you get.