[syslinux] Setting up and helping debug EFI PXE booting

[Spike White]

Phil,

I gave a presentation last month on how to set up a DHCP + TFTP server.
Using syslinux 6.03-pre* to support both Legacy and EFI PXE boot.

Here's the link to the presentation.  My slides are there.

http://2014.texaslinuxfest.org/content/creating-legacy-efi-pxe-server-using-pxelinux

The presentation models a small lab-sized env.  I start simple;  supporting
legacy PXE boot only.  Then I get progressively more
complex.

It was a 35 min presentation.  So  I don't go into separating the DHCP
server and TFTP server on to separate hardware.  Like
you'd do in a large env.  But I give the DHCP settings and the TFTP
structure, you should be able to figure it out from the supplied
content.

BTW, I couldn't have worked out all this content without the generous
assistance from this mailing list.  So Gene, HPA & team, if you see any
value in any of these slides -- you're free to use them anyway you see fit.

Spike

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> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:50:01 -0700
> From: Phil Pokorny <ppokorny at penguincomputing.com>
> To: Syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] Setting up and helping debug EFI PXE booting
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> Hello,
>
> I see lots of current activity trying to get EFI PXE working both with new
> and "old" kernels (RHEL 6.5) and lots of failures.
>
> I've got several real pieces of hardware (AMD APU, Intel E5-2600, etc.)
> with a variety of BIOS and NIC that have EFI PXE stacks to test with.
>
> But I find zero documentation that's up to date on the wiki of how to
> configure a DHCP server to send the right syslinux.efi when an EFI PXE
> clients sends a request and how to configure the TFTP directory structure
> (what's required, etc.)
>
> I think I can get the basic setup configured and create a write up for the
> wiki.  But if someone has notes already written to get me started testing
> quicker that would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil P.
>
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> Chief Technical Officer
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