[ipxe-devel] Apple iMac's

[Brandon Penglase]

I just built the latest version and booted up the MacMini2,1 I have
here. So boots on the older ones still at least.

Brandon

 On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:07:59 -0500
Brandon Penglase <bpenglase-ipxe at Spaceservices.net> wrote:

> For what it's worth at this point, there is this little gem from 4.5
> years ago (oh god...):
> https://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git/commit/5de37e124fd21c8f918f3fe26fc33a764709ead4
> 
> Basically it would allow you to reference the fat ipxe efi binary as
> the Booter file from the DHCP server, and boot ipxe directly.
> 
> I can't say if it currently works or not (I could spin it up and try
> against an old Mac Mini). Does still build and combine though:
> 1.8M Feb 21 21:06 fat-ipxe.efi
> 
> The sad part is that any of the new machines won't work with this, or
> USB, unless you boot it up and disable SecureBoot. I find it really
> sad they effectively got rid of Netbooting.. but that's Apple.
> 
> Brandon Penglase
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:20:20 +0100
> Sebastian Roth <sebaroth at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 2/20/19 11:26 PM, Andreas Fink wrote:  
> > > Macs don't netboot in the usual PXE fashion (dhcp to get a local
> > > IP
> > > + tftp to load a image of a tftp server).
> > > They have another mechanism called Boot Server Discovery Protocol
> > > (BSDP). That mechanism can then be used to then load ipxe.    
> > 
> > While you are right about it being a bit different to PXE boot and
> > called BSDP in the Apple world I wouldn't say "Macs don't netboot in
> > the usual PXE fashion". The base of BSDP is not far from PXE netboot
> > I find.
> > 
> >   
> > >> On 20 Feb 2019, at 17:27, Matthew Turner <supra_matt at yahoo.com
> > >> <mailto:supra_matt at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> We have a number of Apple iMac's 14,2 & 17,1 machines.    
> > 
> > You might want to read through those posts as well as we had people
> > with particular iMacs (depends on the NIC model) that couldn't be
> > made to boot from network using iPXE:
> > https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10615/ipxe-booting-possibly-broken-on-os-x-sierra-update
> > (see the topics on iMacs linked there too)
> > 
> > Keeping my fingers crossed that you have other NICs in your iMacs!
> > 
> > Sebastian
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