[ipxe-devel] CDROM static iPXE

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:40:16PM -0700, Vallard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
> > On 30/08/17 22:05, Vallard wrote:
> >
> >> 1.  No network devices are found.  Booting up the basic ISO image (
> >> http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso) and loading the command prompt I don't
> >> see any interfaces:
> >> IPXE>ifstat
> >> (returns nothing)
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if this is that the Cisco UCS drivers are just not in
> >> there.  I didn't see them in the src when I compiled from scratch either.
> >>
> >
> > Your guess is correct.  iPXE has no native driver for the Cisco UCS NICs.
> >
> > 2.  I thought to put a script on the ISO image my isolinux.cfg would look
> >> like:
> >>
> >
> > If you are building from source, then the easiest solution is to just
> > embed your script:
> >
> >   make bin/ipxe.iso EMBED=myscript.ipxe
> >
> > Michael
> >
> 
> Thanks so much for responding!
> So do I just need to talk to Cisco to make a native driver and contribute it to iPXE?

Yes, customers who talk to their vendor is always good.

> Are you accepting contributions for it?

Patches are always welcome.


> Also, the reason I want to do the myscript.ipxe is because I plan on
> changing that file a bunch with some scripting, so I'd rather compile once
> and then use the initrd argument if that is possible.
> 
> Finally, would the scenario I mentioned actually work if the native driver
> support was in the iPXE ISO image?

Continue the pursuit, see where the finish is.

 
> Thank you very much for such a great tool!


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Geert Stappers
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