iPXE booting

[balanga]

Apparently iPXE has existed since 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE. I have only just come across it. It says that

iPXE can act as a boot loader for Linux or FreeBSD kernels

Has anyone here ever tried to get it working with FreeBSD?

 

[wblock@]

Yes, I tried it. Went back to gpxelinux, something about pxelinux menus.

 

[balanga]

Apparently you can run scripts from IPXE http://ipxe.org/scripting but have been unable to get them to work. I found an explanation here

http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7953

but can't make any sense of it. Maybe someone else can help.

I like the idea of IPXE as it enables you to boot from a remote location which I think is really cool - just by entering something like

  dhcp
  chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php

This actually worked!