On Monday 21 Mar 2011 01:37:22 Dan R wrote: > I just stared to play around with gpxe and so far its been really fun > to play with but there is one thing that I haven't been able to find > an answer to and I wan't to see if you could help me out. What am > trying to do is when gpxe loads to have it drop to a boot prompt where > I can just type the image name that I want to boot like it does with > pxelinux, the problem is every thing I see uses menu.c32 or > vesamenu.c32 and am not a big fan of a menu system.
(Redirecting to ipxe-devel mailing list; gPXE development has stopped.) You can cause iPXE to drop to a command line (http://ipxe.org/cmdline) by pressing Ctrl-B when iPXE starts up. If you want to eliminate the need for the keypress, and always go straight to the command line, then you can use an embedded script (see http://ipxe.org/scripting#embedded_scripts) which contains just: #!ipxe shell It's probably more useful to have your embedded script also initialise the network adapter via DHCP, so you might want your embedded script to contain something like: #!ipxe dhcp || echo Warning: failed to configure network shell Once you're at the command line, you can use the "chain" command (http://ipxe.org/cmd/chain) to download and boot whatever you want. For example: iPXE> chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php Hope that helps, Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
