[ipxe-devel] Boot iPXE from tftp

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 04:34:12PM +0000, Ken.Hendrickson at L3Harris.com wrote:
> 
> I have a tftpd server set up to boot the OpenBSD install.
> I can't get iPXE to work with it, on a PcEngines apu.1d4
> 
> How do I do it?
 
Good question


> (Note: tftp boot works fine with other boxes that use PXE to boot.)
> 
> iPXE identifies itself as:
> 
> iPXE 1.0.0+ -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org
> Features: HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> PS  I have found the following commands, but they don't work.
> set ip x.x.x.x
> set netmask x.x.x.x
> set gateway x.x.x.x
> set dns x.x.x.x
> set domain foo.bar
> set filename bsd.rd
> set next-server x.x.x.x

Somehow I do read that as there is no DHCP server ...


> At least, they don't work for booting with tftp.
> It defaults back to booting by disk.
> There has to be a way ...

Yes


> I note that iPXE 1.0.0+ (the version I have) claims to have TFTP.
> 

I think
that https://networkboot.org/ is
what original poster is looking for.



Regards
Geert Stappers
Looking forward to smart questions.
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