Good day Jon In regards to the gPXE CLI during POST:
A gPXE .ROM build target flashed to a NIC's ROM (or otherwise properly incorporated into a BIOS image) will yield three prompts during computer startup. The first prompt is a Control-B prompt from gpxe/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S. Since POST has not yet completed (we're simply an initializing ROM), the environment is not guaranteed fully setup. Some models have been observed to have a non-existent, bogus, or incorrect E820 map, for example. The next is from the same file and prompts to press N to skip booting from gPXE. The last is the usual post-POST Control-B prompt from gpxe/src/hci/shell_banner.c. You can incorporate a gPXE ROM into QEmu or VirtualBox or VMware, using the details at http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/romburning and http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/vmwarebios - Shao Miller _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
