[ipxe-devel] Grub2 vs iPXE

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Tue Sep 22 15:59:30 UTC 2015


On 22/09/15 16:09, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> So after discussion with Grub maintainers and revealing that I'm trying
> to boot my system via EFI

That's quite a significant data point!

The iPXE .lkrn image is a BIOS image, built to expect and require a BIOS 
firmware.

If you want to downgrade from BIOS to EFI, then you need to use one of 
the EFI images such as bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi.  These are standard EFI 
executables.  If the patched Fedora GRUB2 can load standard EFI 
executables (such as Shell.efi), then it should be able to load ipxe.efi.

Michael



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