kea-1.8.0-2 running on a Rocky Linux 8.7 system.
I've got a good setup for leasing out IP addresses on my network and
also pxeboot'ing BIOS based systems into a Rocky Linux/CentOS kickstart
install.
I need to start doing the same install procedure for systems that only
support uefi booting. I've found lots of examples of doing this, tried
a few but so far nothing has worked.
client-classes I have defined currently:
--------------------
"client-classes": [
{
"name": "pxe_x86",
"next-server": "1.1.1.249",
"server-hostname": "dhcp1",
"boot-file-name": "pxelinux.0",
"test": "option[93].hex == 0x0000"
}
],
"client-classes": [
{
"name": "pxe_bios_x86",
"test": "substring(option[60].hex,0,9) == 'PXEClient' and
option[93].hex == 0x0000",
"next-server": "1.1.1.249",
"boot-file-name": "pxelinux.0"
}
],
--------------------
All systems have a reservation like this, they're read from a json file:
{ "ip-address": "1.1.1.82",
"hostname": "thishost",
"hw-address": "aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff",
"next-server": "1.1.1.249",
"boot-file-name": "pxelinux.0"
},
--------------------
When pxebooting for a kickstart install here's a Rocky Linux 8.7
example, 01-aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff:
default rl8.7-x86_64
label rl8.7-x86_64
kernel /linux-install/rl8.7-x86_64/vmlinuz
append initrd=/linux-install/rl8.7-x86_64/initrd.img
inst.lang=en_US.UTF-8 inst.keymap=us
inst.ks=nfs:1.1.1.249:/export/kickstart/thishost.ks
--------------------
For normal ops I take out the next-server and boot-file-name from the
reservation and just use the dhcp leasing on the systems.
As I understand things right now I need to add in a client-class for
doing a pxeboot on a uefi system and tweak the boot-file-name during the
pxeboot process. I haven't stumbled across the right ju-ju to get this
working and I keep seeing more examples that just add to the confusion.
One specific thing that has me confused in all this is I keep seeing
references to a boot-file-name setting with various different *.efi
files, but can't find any of those files anywhere. There doesn't seem
to be an rpm that will install them in rocky linux 8.x, 9.x or CentOS 7.
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