I seem to recall that this initrd/cpio magic described in the document only works on legacy BIOS, not EFI.
-- Robin On 2020-06-04 04:24, 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 ? > - can someone update it to mention it's not working, or what options > are needed ? > > Thanks a lot > Etienne > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel > _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
