[ipxe-devel] Intel NUC, IPXE & Rom burning questions

[Robin Smidsrød]

On 25.07.2013 15:40, Marc Lane wrote:
> I have been playing with ipxe rom (80861503) on an Intel NUC via usb.
> Now it has come time to try and burn the rom, however bootutil wont burn
> on board LOMs/Roms and there is no external ROM on board to burn.
> 
> I then spent a day looking at injecting the rom into the Intel .bio
> bios, however I couldn't get the bios check-sums rite to reconstruct the
> bio and flash it (ffs file issues).

Can't you just chainload it by enabling the vendor PXE firmware in the
BIOS and loading ipxe.pxe?

> I am sure i have read that people have used the NUC for iscsi booting
> etc. Any pointers or info on magic versions of bootutil I should be
> using would be greatly appreciated.

It was Steve Cross that informed me it was working.

Steve: Could you tell us what you did to make things work?

-- Robin