Why can't this be done with NFS or HTTP boot? I mean I *really* like this idea of avoiding the memdisk/grub booting of ISO images but it would be nice to not have it limited to these formats? Perhaps something like
sanboot http://.... sanboot nfs://... ----- Original Message ----- | It is now possible to use iPXE to directly boot from an ISO image held | on a | SAN target (e.g. AoE, iSCSI, FCoE). This has the same limitations as | using | memdisk to boot an ISO image, but without the memory overhead or | initial | download delay of memdisk. | | There's no special syntax: just make the ISO image available on the | SAN target | and then attempt to boot from it (using "sanboot" or with a DHCP | root-path). | For example: | | (on server) vblade 0 0 eth0 /path/to/winpe.iso | (on iPXE) sanboot aoe:e0.0 | | I have tested that WinPE and the VMware installer are able to start | using this | method. I'd appreciate any further testing. | | Michael | _______________________________________________ | ipxe-devel mailing list | [email protected] | https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : [email protected] Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
