chain load with EFI and file:/ URL
I want to use iPXE as a replacement for grub2 on a multiboot system. The goal is to have the BIOS boot in to the ipxe.efi which will read its configuration from a web server. The web server gives it a...
View ArticleBooting Windows 7 PE built with Winbuilder (TheOven.org)
Sorry for the huge post but I wanted to try and include as much info as possible. I've been trying to get this to work for at least a full week now and I'm not having much luck. I have read through the...
View Articleipxe and DNSMASQ
I have a FOG server setup and working correctly. Because I am using it at home, my FIOS router also provides a DHCP server so I want to use DNSMASQ as a DHCP proxy server to handle requests and respond...
View ArticleEncounter "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS" when boot ArchLinux installation...
I am trying to boot the installation ArchLinux files on my machine with UEFI firmware. I had turned off secure boot. I am able to reach the iPXE shell from DHCP undionly.ipxe. Here is my iPXE script...
View ArticleIpxe.efi on USB drive is not detecting ax88179 usb nic
I am trying to boot ipxe from a usb drive and have it detect my USB to Ethernet adapter, so that I can load my ipxe menu from my web server. I have built ipxe.efi from the source git ipxe repo. And I...
View ArticleBackground image stretched in console
I am using an image in the console with my menu, and I have set the console resolution x and y to 1024 x 768. But I find that on some computers the image is stretched. Is there a way that iPXE can...
View Articleipxe chain to vmware boot
Im trying to double chain ipxe as following: (i've compiled ipxe.efi with DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS enable) First Chain: #!ipxe echo info chain http://IPaddr:PORT/ipxe/${net0/mac:hex} chain...
View Articleipxe boot iso files and load as virtual cd drive
hi there. I have been reading many topics and forums and I am stuck . I am trying to ipxe boot an iso file. But I need the iso file to load as a cd drive on the machine . I have a fog project machine...
View ArticleFOG & iPXE Configuring net0... slowly
Hello, We’ve just recently installed a FOG server. It seems to be working so far as we’ve tested, but after chainloading into iPXE it seems to hang at the “configuring net0(MAC address)” step. I feel...
View ArticleHow can I save settings to hd?
Hello gays! I installed ipxe.lkrn in the first partition of hd, and using syslinux boot. but every time after the reboot the previous settings is missing, I hope settins can be stored permanently, how...
View ArticleNew NIC Drivers
Hello all, I have been working on testing FOG+iPXE configurations with new Aquantia AQN-107 10G NIC's as well as new ASUS XG-C100C 10G NIC's. I have successfully used FOG with the integrated NICs on my...
View Articleisc-dhcp and wds
Good day. I set iPXE on nix(debian+tftp+apache), set options in isc-dhcp Code: host clientname2 { if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) { filename...
View ArticleSanboot 0x80 (local) on EFI
Hello, I have an EFI dual-boot setup. (One disk with GPT partitions, including an EFI partition) I'd like to be able to boot locally, and to choose which .efi file to boot. As such, simply using 'exit'...
View ArticleIntel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter (EXPI9301CTBLK)
Hello, I have a network adapter "EXPI9301CTBLK", which I wanted to flash now. I have entered the following commands "BootUtil -SAVEIMAGE -FILE = Backup.FLB" and "BootUtil -FE -ALL". Then I wanted to...
View ArticleiPXE very slow boot on any pci 32 cards
Hello, sorry my bad english, i is newer in this fórum, i need help for solve an problem with iPXE rom, before i used gPXE rom, my computers with gigabit pci 32 card boots quickly, approx 15 seconds...
View Article[ipxe] Need to multiple load over cpio(newc)
Hello. For example, now I can load only one bootloader/file over cpio over initrd like this(GRUB2): Code: menuentry "iPXE" { search --set=root --file /boot/ipxe.lkrn linux16 /boot/ipxe.lkrn...
View Articlefails to set variables
Hello! I am puzzled why this does not work (version 1.0.0+ (c9f6 as well as 546dd)): #!ipxe echo test set vartest 200 echo $vartest echo ${vartest} sleep 5 exit It displays test only. I was expecting...
View Articlenative freebsd kernel support
ipxe currently has no native support to boot the FreeBSD kernel, the only way to get to FreeBSD is by chaining to ISO or PXE+NFS. there are claims to be found on the internet that ipxe can boot 32 bit...
View ArticleHow to iMake a iSCSI Server On Ubuntu 16.04 Linux
Dear Sir/Madam, I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 Linux on HP Desktop Computer... Now I want to make a iSCSI Target Server On this Ubuntu Machine With PXE Configuration, DHCP Configuration AND TFTP...
View ArticleDisabling OCSP lookups
OCSP is causing some issues with our network and we'd like to disable it entirely from our binary. Is there an easy method to go about this when building the image from source, or do I have to go in an...
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