Oliver: Sadly ipxe does not get us anywhere close to where we need to be. We have to support a huge menu of linux images as well as huge menu of windows images from network boot. We need i386-pc, x86_64-pc, i386-efi, x86_64-efi and we may be adding arm-efi and ia64-efi in the near future. iPXE does not come close to reliably providing this level of support, grub is the closest.
The reason we need this is that we have literally hundreds of different models of devices from phones all the way up to 16-way servers. We need to be able to restore these devices to known good configurations. Each with their own sets of often incompatible tools. Some are Linux only, some windows only. We need the capabilities to both clone OS and install fresh for a long list of operating systems. We had been working happily for years with pxelinux for the -pc platforms, but chainloading efi binaries is not supported. Hence we turned to grub. If you want some more details as to why this is important or want pointers to some other folks who have to dual boot, let me know. ~joe From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oliver Rath Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Support for PXE Chainloading windows? Hi Joe, I think, this is possible, but I dont see any ues case for this. There are much more better possibilities to solve this. See http://www.ipxe.org Regards Oliver Am 29.04.2014 22:43, schrieb Mroczek, Joseph T: Hello: Does any know if using grub2 booted from PXE load to the Microsoft PXE loader is expected to work? I see some older messages saying that chainloading is not available in PXE for grub2. However there appears to be a pxechainload command. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-08/msg00109.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2010-12/msg00012.html I am fumbling around trying to find a working solution, so far I have not for i386/x86_64. ~joe _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
