On 15.05.2013 22:49, Michael Brown wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 21:34:09 Gray, Michael E. wrote: >> We area Church / School who would like to utilize the IPXE boot options, >> preferably off a USB drive. We are well versed in DOS, WINDOWS not Linux >> however. Is there any way to gather a image for a USB thumb drive and be >> able to edit the script file to boot from a specified location. Thank you. > > You can find instructions on embedding scripts at > > http://ipxe.org/embed#embedding_within_the_ipxe_binary > > To create a bootable USB image with an embedded script, you will need > something like: > > make bin/ipxe.usb EMBED=myscript.ipxe > > where myscript.ipxe contains an iPXE script similar to: > > #!ipxe > dhcp > chain http://my.web.server/boot.php > > This image can then be transferred to a USB key using > > dd if=bin/ipxe.usb of=/dev/sdX > > You will need a Linux system in order to build iPXE (or any Unix-like system, > such as Mac OS X).
Or you can use http://rom-o-matic.eu/, and paste the above script into the "embedded script" text area and you should be ready to go. You'll of course need to write the ipxe.usb file directly to a USB stick, which is a bit tricky to do in Windows. I've used dd for windows, found at http://www.chrysocome.net/dd, but it is a bit tricky to use. Make sure you use the right device path, or you might accidentally overwrite a drive you care about. -- Robin _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
