Re: iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board

Hi Kamil,
Nice work! though I=92m not that ambitious.
I need to be able to load pxeboot and that seems to
need some magic. BTW, do you know where there is =

some good docs on iPXE?

thanks,
	danny

On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> =

> Please look at my GSoC wiki page:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed
> =

> There is kpxe file, you can chainload it using file option in your dhcp s=
erver.
> =

> It's very simple script:
> =

> #!ipxe
> dhcp
> cpuid --ext 29 && set CPU-ARCH amd64 || set CPU-ARCH i386
> set img http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/10/${CPU-ARCH}/mfsbsd-10.0-RELEA=
SE-${CPU-ARCH}.img
> kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk raw
> initrd ${img}
> boot
> =

> It detects architecture and runs mfsbsd directly from Martin Matuska webs=
ite.
> =

> It's simpliest way to boot different iso or img image of FreeBSD. It
> will be nice to have local mirror and make menu with different
> releases. I'll prepare menu, but I need few days, I'll inform you.
> =

> I think that in next week will be ready iPXE port for FreeBSD and
> simply solutions.
> =

> I have many scripts to boot ubuntu, debian, etc. and I can help you
> with it. It's simple to run FreeBSD from nfs server too. Ask if you
> have problems.
> =

> Kamil
> =

> 2014-06-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>:
>> On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>> =

>>> Hi all,
>>> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already
>>> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it=92s going to be an
>>> interesting weekend :-)
>> =

>> =

>> If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are boot=
ing
>> a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). Otherwis=
e,
>> it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the network.
>> =

>>        ---Mike
>> =

>> =

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