[ipxe-devel] iPXE server

[shouldbe q931]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:24 PM,  <m.m_de_vries at online.nl> wrote:
> Hello Andrew,

You didn't send this to Andrew

Please always reply to the mailing list
>
> It's now working!
>
> But two things:
>
> You wrote that you can have two boot.ipxe scrips, one for home and one for pro:
>
> win7home.ipxe
> #!ipxe
> kernel wimboot
> initrd win7home/bootmgr          bootmgr
> initrd win7home/boot/bcd         BCD
> initrd win7home/boot/boot.sdi    boot.sdi
> initrd win7home/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
> imgstat
> boot
>  win7pro.ipxe
> #!ipxe
> kernel wimboot
> initrd win7pro/bootmgr          bootmgr
> initrd win7pro/boot/bcd         BCD
> initrd win7pro/boot/boot.sdi    boot.sdi
> initrd win7pro/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
> imgstat
> boot
>
> But in my dhcpd.conf file I have:
>
> filename "http://192.168.1.254/win7DVD/boot.ipxe";

use

filename "http://192.168.1.254/<menu>.ipxe"

where <menu>.ipxe is the ipxe file which contains a menu for different
boot options.

take a look at https://gist.github.com/robinsmidsrod/2234639 for an
extensive use of menus

>
> That means that you have to modify this file before instaling. That is no what I want. I want a menu with several options and then a unattended installation.
>
>
> The second thing is, is it possible to boot iPXE from the server without an USB-stick or CDROM in the client to boot?

yes, by chainloading from PXE

http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading