[syslinux] PXE boot img for both BIOS and EFI

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Wed Dec 12 15:29:31 PST 2018


On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 17:10 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:54 PM Joakim Tjernlund
> <Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com> wrote:
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> > While I am here, I want to ask:
> > Is there a way to create a combined PXE boot img for both BIOS and EFI ?
> > Currently one have to use 2 different images.
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> I'm a little fuzzy what you mean here.

Can you have one pxelinux.0 which will work for both UEFI resp. BIOS PXE ?

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> do you want the tftp server to send boot img?
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> I think you should explain the steps of what boots what.
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> > Also, can one have GRUB bootable PXE img?
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> I would ask on a grub list ;)
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No, this is a syslinux thing. Basically have grub load(over tftp) and run pxelinux.0 using
some other syslinux module.

 Jocke 




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