[syslinux] PXE Linux and EFI....or Intel MACs

[Jacob Alifrangis]

Whoops, ok Netrestore won't work, it relies on netboot/

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Behalf Of Andrew Stuart
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:56 PM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE Linux and EFI....or Intel MACs


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> Behalf Of Andrew Stuart
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:48 PM
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
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>> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com]
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> On
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>> Behalf Of Andrew Stuart
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:29 PM
>> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
>> Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE Linux and EFI....or Intel MACs
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>> Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
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>>> Has anyone gotten PXELinux to work on the Intel Imacs or other EFI
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>> Based
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>>> Systems?
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>> Not I. I haven't had a chance to invest to much time into it though.
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>> One thing I found, with ppc, and early? (haven't tested anything 
>> recently) intel machines did not respect the next-server directive. 
>> Netbooting wouldn't work at all unless the dhcp server and tftp
server
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>> were running on the same host.
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>> I am still quite interested in getting this working, but I am not a 
>> programmer.
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>> -A
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> Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
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>> That doesn't seem to be the case with the intel Macs,
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>> I believe that the Intel MACs boot code needs to receive a BSDP
Packet
>> (Boot Service Discovery Protocol). I think that With some trying I
can
>> get this to work, I'll keep you updated (It's going to involve some
>> crafy .net programming though)
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> Please post at the bottom, it makes reading the digest, etc easier.
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> To make sure I was clear, it seemed to be an issue with at least the 
> earlier firmware on the intel line. I did just test it with a recent
mbp
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> and it worked fine.
> Have you got your macs netbooting? If you haven't got that far, I can 
> try to dig up some of the information I found / used to be able to 
> netboot NetRestore.. but that bypasses syslinux.
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> -A
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Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
> The problem is that we are trying to deploy windows to the new MBPs,
so
> the apple stuff really isn't going to work.
>
> I need to be able to start syslinux and do the regular RIS/WDS stuff.
Not sure if this will work for you, but check out NetRestore. 
http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html
It supports deploying of windows. The reason I am not sure, is I don't 
know if you can deploy just windows, and I don't know if it supports 
Leopard yet.

Unless you know something I don't, loading Windows on a mac without 'the

apple stuff' is not possible at this time. If I recall correctly 
Microsoft removed
EFI support from their products with the exclusion of ia64 branches. It 
is my understanding, that you will *require* bootcamp to support 
windows, but again, I haven't kept up on that.

-A

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