For what it's worth at this point, there is this little gem from 4.5 years ago (oh god...): https://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git/commit/5de37e124fd21c8f918f3fe26fc33a764709ead4
Basically it would allow you to reference the fat ipxe efi binary as the Booter file from the DHCP server, and boot ipxe directly. I can't say if it currently works or not (I could spin it up and try against an old Mac Mini). Does still build and combine though: 1.8M Feb 21 21:06 fat-ipxe.efi The sad part is that any of the new machines won't work with this, or USB, unless you boot it up and disable SecureBoot. I find it really sad they effectively got rid of Netbooting.. but that's Apple. Brandon Penglase On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:20:20 +0100 Sebastian Roth <sebar...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2/20/19 11:26 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: > > Macs don't netboot in the usual PXE fashion (dhcp to get a local IP > > + tftp to load a image of a tftp server). > > They have another mechanism called Boot Server Discovery Protocol > > (BSDP). That mechanism can then be used to then load ipxe. > > While you are right about it being a bit different to PXE boot and > called BSDP in the Apple world I wouldn't say "Macs don't netboot in > the usual PXE fashion". The base of BSDP is not far from PXE netboot > I find. > > > >> On 20 Feb 2019, at 17:27, Matthew Turner <supra_m...@yahoo.com > >> <mailto:supra_m...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > >> > >> We have a number of Apple iMac's 14,2 & 17,1 machines. > > You might want to read through those posts as well as we had people > with particular iMacs (depends on the NIC model) that couldn't be > made to boot from network using iPXE: > https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10615/ipxe-booting-possibly-broken-on-os-x-sierra-update > (see the topics on iMacs linked there too) > > Keeping my fingers crossed that you have other NICs in your iMacs! > > Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel