[ipxe-devel] Booting a Mac into WDS with ipxe.usb (was: Re: gPXE or iPXE on USB)

[shouldbe q931]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:
> On 19.06.2013 21:03, Yadin Flammer wrote:

>
>> Anyway, now that I can actually get the .usb cloned to USB, I face a
>> different set of issues.
>>
>> Some Mac systems simply will not see the drive as bootable, others
>> will.  I suspect this has to do with the vintage of the firmware and the
>> type of file system that's being written to the drive.  For those that
>> will boot from it, here's what fails:
>
> I've heard on the list a while back that some Macs boot in legacy/BIOS
> mode when booting with CD, but boot in UEFI mode when booting using USB.
> If that is the case on your Mac, then no amount of trying to write the
> BIOS version of iPXE to a USB stick will work.
>


I'm fairly certain that the Intel macs will only do an EFI boot from
USB, see the large quantities of people that are unable to boot from
USB optical media...

If I needed to install Windows to a large number of Intel Apple
computers, I would probably look at using DeployStudio instead
http://wiki.afp548.com/index.php/Create_a_Boot_Camp_image.

As an alternative to using an Apple server for NetBoot, you might take
a look at this https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3849

Cheers

Arne