On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:28:56PM -0400, Etienne Champetier wrote: > Hello iPXE devs, > > The text at https://ipxe.org/appnote/debian_preseed suggests that you > can load a non cpio file, > put it as initrd= param, and that even for EFI mode iPXE will make a > cpio for you. > In my testing (and as discussed here > https://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7830&pid=11948#pid11948 by > others) > this is only working with cpio files when in EFI mode, so 2 questions: > - is this appnote/debian_preseed page just a design document that was > never implemented ?
Or something that worked five years ago ... } - can someone update it Posting is recieved as reminder on a pending password request > - can someone update it to mention it's not working, That is a recipe / request for getting out-dated information even more outdated :-/ > or what options are needed ? Few days (few weeks?) ago I saw some "iPXE initrd advice" But it is not anymore in IRC scroll buffer Things I remember * BIOS and EFI have different idea how initrd should be provided * "only switch once initrd type" > Thanks a lot Thank you for poking us > Etienne Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
