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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?
This can be handled a few different ways.
16MiB is enough to hold entire Linux distro. Example: OpenWRT
I remember that there was a ROM in the Amiga 500 which had the kickstart software on it which you'd load from a diskette on the predecessor the Amiga 1000. This made it much faster to boot because you would not need to switch diskettes in the middle of the boot.
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.