Must admit I hadnt thought of using the iPXE built in menus ... One thing that I do like about the way I am running iPXE at the moment is that the bootable ISO is tiny and all the menus are held centrally and so make for easy updates etc.
Can iPXE load a second menu by http from a central server ? At the moment the BIOS iPXE loads a series of menus and then ultimately it loads the build kernels.... for example : MENU TITLE Template SLES12_1_JLR DEFAULT default TIMEOUT 1 LABEL default MENU LABEL default KERNEL sles12_1/vmlinuz.SLES12_1_JLR APPEND root=/dev/ram0 insecure=1 netwait=45 netsetup=1 load_ramdisk=1 autoyast=http://tcsbuild.jlrint.com/autoyast/sles121 initrd=sles12_1/initrd.SLES12_1_JLR splash=silent showopts ramdisk_size=4096 install=nfs://tcsbuild.jlrint.com/linux_build/sles12_1/CD1 domain="gaydon.jlrint.com whitley.jlrint.com jaguar.ford.com" I will have a look at the iPXE menus and see if they can do this sort of thing but the main thing is that it can load the menus from a central point .... is that possible ? Thanks. Dean. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Hesse" eworm.de> To: "Dean Westhead" westhead.net>, "ipxe-devel" <ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org> Sent: Thursday, 19 January, 2017 14:42:26 Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] UEFI Boot ISO Dean Westhead westhead.net> on Thu, 2017/01/19 14:37: > Thanks Christian .... not sure how I missed that in your first post ! > > Had to install an additional package to the machine too but after doing > this commit, I can now create a bootable EFI ISO ! It even loads my > embedded script and connects etc. Great! > The last problem I am having is not strictly to do with iPXE so not sure if > you can advise .... > > On a normal BIOS boot machine, the ISO connects to the network and loads > pxelinux.0 as a kernel, That in turn loads pxelinux.cfg/default etc. > > I realise that we cant use the pxelinux.0 when booting iPXE in UEFI mode, > so I have also on the tftp server got the grub2.efi binary which I have > created using the grub2-mkstandalone command. > > Again the iPXE UEFI boot ISO connects and loads the grub2 binary and drops > me to the grub2 command prompt. That is my problem ..... for the life of me > I cant get grub2 to load a default menu no matter where I put it on the > tftp server ! > > Can you offer any advice ? Is there a reason you want to load another boot loader? iPXE can show a menu as well. And the extra bonus, which reduces boot latency a lot: iPXE can load files from http, you do not rely on tftp. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);} _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
