[ipxe-devel] ipxe.lkrn for UEFI?

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Wed Jan 9 20:24:45 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 21:09 +0100, Christian Nilsson wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 20:56, Joakim Tjernlund
> <Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com> wrote:
> > Is there such a thing?
> 
> What is your goal, and why would you want it?
> 
> .lkrn target needs PCBIOS interupts to work at all - and it can't run under EFI.
> .efi target needs EFI framework to run - and can't run under PCBIOS.
> 
> If what you want is to start ipxe in EFI mode from some other
> bootloader then you need to figure out how that bootloader should be
> used to start an efi binary.
> It might help to talk about starting efishell from said bootloader.
> 
> creating a binary that includes both pcbios and efi exectuables (such
> as what wimboot does) could be possible, but due to the limited
> available memory in pcbios that would not be really usable.

I am looking for an unattended PXE install. One that you can just reboot into one
can avoid using the console.

I am using grub(git master) 

  Jocke


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