[ipxe-devel] Getting started booting an iPXE script (was: (no subject))

Robin Smidsrød robin at smidsrod.no
Sat Dec 8 19:25:31 UTC 2012


On 04.12.2012 06:58, shawn belknap wrote:
>  i got a laptop to get the undionly.kpxe ipxe defaults, when i get to
> the prompt, how do i run the hello world script hw.ipxe thats on the server?
> i typed hw.ipxe and it says not found
> im new at this and not sure how it works, was just playing around try to
> boot the ipxe and then see it say hello world
> i can get to the prompt and type help and see the built in commands, so
> how to launch a script to run commands back to back?

Type in this if your hw.ipxe is located on a web server:

dhcp
chain http://1.2.3.4/path/to/hw.ipxe

I would also suggest that you read up on how PXE works in general on
Wikipedia if you are not so familiar with all the jargon.

-- Robin



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