[ipxe-devel] iPXE for Apple hardware

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| ----- Original Message -----
| | On Friday 25 Mar 2011 06:58:12 James A. Peltier wrote:
| | > 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.
| |
| | Could you describe what you want to do with iPXE in a bit more
| | detail?
| | Assume
| | that I know absolutely nothing about Deploy Studio.
| |
| | Michael
| 
| Currently we use Deploy Studio on USB or CD/DVD to boot Apple
| Macintosh machines to install or capture disk images (mainly install)
| for computer labs. I have a iPXE based installation server that can
| currently deploy all operating systems we support with the exception
| of Apple OS X.
| 
| I would like to be able to take these machines and iSCSI boot the
| DeployStudio image because it will be much faster than AFS, NFS, HTTP
| or basically any other method. It is also far more consistent because
| we can ensure that all Macs are booting the most current version of
| the DeployStudio package that we build. This has one other advantage,
| we don't have to have Mac servers specific to this task, just to the
| building of the images.
| 
| We also have other plans for iSCSI feature sets for Apple hardware and
| since I am familiar with iPXE it's kind of a good fit if we can make
| it work.
| 
| --
| James A. Peltier
| IT Services - Research Computing Group
| Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
| Phone : 778-782-6573
| Fax : 778-782-3045
| E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
| Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices
| http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier
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BTW: This might prove interesting to you Michael

https://www.math.osu.edu/oldwiki/administration/macosx/netboot/bsdp_with_isc_dhcp

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James A. Peltier
IT Services - Research Computing Group
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
Phone   : 778-782-6573
Fax     : 778-782-3045
E-Mail  : jpeltier at sfu.ca
Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices
          http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier