[ipxe-devel] Setting up ipxe

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 22 12:54:44 UTC 2011


On Thursday 21 Jul 2011 20:55:03 eric1tran at yahoo.com wrote:
> I have servers that are able to PXE boot and I'm now trying to implement
>  ipxe...
> 
> I read that all I need to do is chainload it so I Downloaded the
>  undionly.kpxe file (with wget command) and put that in my /tftpboot
>  folder...then I changed the dhcpd.conf file from "filename pxelinux.0" to
>  "filename undionly.kpxe"....
> 
> Is there anything else I'm missing? Would I need to actually compile the
>  ipxe file or anything or should that download method work?

That will work; you should find that iPXE starts up and tries to boot 
something.  What happens next depends on how you have your DHCP server set up.

Michael



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