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address questions from avsm re Type 1 servers, persistent iPXE

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Signed-off-by: Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@gmail.com>
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@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ with appropriate read/write permissions to allow the image to boot.
[create a Packet account]:https://app.packet.net/#/registration/
[create an API key]:https://help.packet.net/quick-start/api-integrations
Linuxkit is known to boot on the [Type 0] server at Packet.
Linuxkit is known to boot on the [Type 0]
and [Type 1] servers at Packet.
Support for other server types, including the [Type 2A] ARM server,
is a work in progress.
[Type 0]:https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-0/
[Type 1]:https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-1/
[Type 2A]:https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a/
## Boot
@ -67,6 +69,14 @@ At this moment the Linuxkit server boots from RAM, with no persistent
storage and there is no code that mounts disks. As a result,
when the Linuxkit image reboots, all is lost.
Packet supports a [persistent iPXE] mode through its API
which would allow a server to come back up after a reboot
and re-start the PXE process. This is great for testing your
provisioning scripts. This is not yet available directly
through Linuxkit.
[persistent iPXE]:https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/custom-ipxe
## Networking
Some Packet server types have bonded networks; the current code does