[ipxe-devel] Image Load is gone?

[James A. Peltier]

I would REALLY like the ability to load in snponly.efi . It would certainly make it very easy for me to provide the single unified installation menu that I have for all hardware. It really sucks that this isn't in the main code base. 

----- Original Message -----

| I restored snponly.efi function with a PoC patch:
| https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/19447d9c39e06c3d5aabd198736cd23d8e40c870

| I haven't gotten around to cleaning it up, it could be much better.

| On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Michael Brown <
| mbrown at fensystems.co.uk > wrote:

| | On Thursday 02 May 2013 23:14:47 Duane Voth wrote:
| 
| | > I am right in expecting the snponly ipxe to work nicely with
| | > existing
| 
| | > network devices right? Or perhaps this usage impacts the question
| | > above?
| 

| | Quite possibly not. EFI doesn't have a clean model for multiple
| | users
| | of an
| 
| | SNP interface.
| 

| | > Last, at what point does snp ipxe plug into the uEFI stack? Is
| | > the
| | > ipxe
| 
| | > dhcp config separate from the EFI dhcp client? (I have noticed
| | > two
| 
| | > different IP addresses being allocated for this same NIC/MAC)
| 

| | iPXE's TCP/IP stack is entirely separate from the EFI TCP/IP stack.
| | EFI knows
| 
| | nothing about addresses obtained using DHCP inside iPXE.
| 

| | > Could ipxe use more of the existing protocols now that edk2 is
| | > more
| | > stable?
| 

| | It could, but it's not going to. iPXE is going to deliberately
| | avoid
| | the EDK2
| 
| | facilities and limitations. See http://ipxe.org/efi/vision for the
| | reason why.
| 

| | Michael
| 
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