Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:44:01 +0200 From: Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda@gmail.com> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board Message-ID: <CADSgWNEV0gmSnZWU5-mWVRcggL=9NBxoVax19r2zUmZuJN%2BoFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17B3B28C-A9D7-4FD2-ACEB-CFE4738C4D49@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <9D14C4BD-8A13-43FC-ACDA-0315A58CEBC6@cs.huji.ac.il> <5399C6A0.9010506@sentex.net> <CADSgWNGqgSZ7kCCb8x_U2RqquUs8WDnOBq8vp=20wfi8nxG3TQ@mail.gmail.com> <17B3B28C-A9D7-4FD2-ACEB-CFE4738C4D49@cs.huji.ac.il>
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I suggest official documentation: http://ipxe.org/docs There is many good solutions for iPXE, but I havn't seen good for FreeBSD. It will my work this summer. 2014-06-13 10:32 GMT+02:00 Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>: > Hi Kamil, > Nice work! though I=E2=80=99m not that ambitious. > I need to be able to load pxeboot and that seems to > need some magic. BTW, do you know where there is > some good docs on iPXE? > > thanks, > danny > > > On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please look at my GSoC wiki page: >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed >> >> There is kpxe file, you can chainload it using file option in your dhcp = server. >> >> It's very simple script: >> >> #!ipxe >> dhcp >> cpuid --ext 29 && set CPU-ARCH amd64 || set CPU-ARCH i386 >> set img http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/10/${CPU-ARCH}/mfsbsd-10.0-RELE= ASE-${CPU-ARCH}.img >> kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk raw >> initrd ${img} >> boot >> >> It detects architecture and runs mfsbsd directly from Martin Matuska web= site. >> >> It's simpliest way to boot different iso or img image of FreeBSD. It >> will be nice to have local mirror and make menu with different >> releases. I'll prepare menu, but I need few days, I'll inform you. >> >> I think that in next week will be ready iPXE port for FreeBSD and >> simply solutions. >> >> I have many scripts to boot ubuntu, debian, etc. and I can help you >> with it. It's simple to run FreeBSD from nfs server too. Ask if you >> have problems. >> >> Kamil >> >> 2014-06-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>: >>> On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already >>>> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it=E2=80=99s going to be= an >>>> interesting weekend :-) >>> >>> >>> If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are boo= ting >>> a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). Otherwi= se, >>> it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the network. >>> >>> ---Mike >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------- >>> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 >>> Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net >>> Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net >>> Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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