[ipxe-devel] iPXE for Apple hardware

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| On Thursday 24 Mar 2011 17:45:34 James A. Peltier wrote:
| > A co-worker of mine pointed me at this URL which outlines NFS
| > booting a Mac
| >  dmg file
| >
| > https://www.math.ohio-state.edu/oldwiki/administration/macosx/netboot/bsdp_
| > with_isc_dhcp
| >
| > Is anyone currently using iPXE on Apple hardware? If so can you give
| > me a
| >  brief description of the methods you used to build and deploy it?
| >  We'd
| >  like to use iPXE to provide iSCSI services at boot for deployment
| >  of Macs
| >  using Deploy Studio.
| 
| iPXE can be built as an EFI application, which has (occasionally) been
| tested
| on Macs. You should be able to build on any Unix-like OS with gcc,
| including
| Mac OS.
| 
| However, the EFI build does not provide any kind of iSCSI support,
| since there
| is no direct equivalent of the INT13 API under EFI. There is an EFI
| iSCSI
| initiator available as part of the EFI EDK, though I haven't tried
| using it.
| 
| Michael

Is there a similar chainload method that can be utilized outside of EFI?  I'll look into the SDK to see how I can mould it into what I want

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