[ipxe-devel] iPXE does not boot OpenBSD ELF kernel

[Alexander Frolkin]

Hi,

I'm trying to boot an OpenBSD kernel from iPXE, it's bsd.rd from OpenBSD
5.2 amd64 (ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/amd64/bsd.rd).  'file'
says:

  bsd.rd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

iPXE (undionly.kkpxe) says:

  iPXE 1.0.0+ (3cfb) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org
  Features: HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu

  iPXE> set use-cached 1
  iPXE> dhcp net0
  DHCP (net0 12:34:56:78:90:ab) using cached
  iPXE> chain tftp://<server>/openbsd/bsd.rd
  tftp://<server>/openbsd/bsd.rd... ok
  Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008001)
  iPXE> 

I reported this on the forum
(http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=6831) and was told that this
might be a bug.  Is anyone able to help with this?  Thanks!

I've also just tried booting a 32 bit kernel, and this gives a different
error:

  Could not boot: Requested memory not available (http://ipxe.org/46038101)


Alex