Dear iPXE developers,
I've noticed the SANBOOT example for booting FreeDOS 1.0 on your
project's website (mailing list archives). The default ipxe.iso worked
fine for this, provided I used two commands:
* dhcp
* sanboot --drive 0x81 http://boot.ipxe.org/freedos/fdfullcd.iso
if I omit the 0x81 part I'm out of luck because neither harddisk nor ISO
are found then (mapping to 0x80 isn't that great apparently).
If I add it, the ELTORITO.SYS ISO9960 driver seems to be able to
succesfully 'mount' the ISO.
I've got some questions and suggestions though:
1) Where can I find documentation about which NICs are supported? Maybe
GPXE project lists them, your website at least doesn't seem to do so. I
guess each and every one of them is included in the default compiled
testing IPXE.ISO file, together with some kind of PCI detection.
2) How do I keep the connection to the internet open and which packet
driver can I use? Is it still NIC-dependant or is there a driver that
attaches to iPXE? I'm not aware of an UNDIPKT.COM or anything
3) Is the Flashrom project suitable for your NIC flashing?
http://www.flashrom.org for more info.
4) Is there some option to load this SANBOOT'd ISO into RAM?
basically Syslinux's memdisk I guess, but then as:
[ memsanbt http://server.domain.extension/path/filename.iso ]
From FreeDOS itself this would be easy enough, just wondering if it's
possible to do so in advance from iPXE itself. Or I could just use the
double ISO trick (Isolinux shell/menu wrapped around inner ISO which can
be booted using memdisk)
I've got a FreeDOS 1.1 test release available at [
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1-test3/fd11tst3.iso
] (16MB). No sources atm though, but neither does your ISO :)
Linking to that FDOS 1.1 ISO through SANBOOT directive is no use, as the
HTTP part redirects to [ftp://ftp.ibliblio.org/] (something that modern
browsers and WGET/CURL might pick up, but other stuff like HTGET nor
your SANBOOT directive seem to be able to.).
with best regards,
Bernd Blaauw
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