Re: Boot Server Without DHCP

Tim Fletcher <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:37:39 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 13:32 -0700, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
> 
> S
> > Best way is to make use of ipxe's new scripting via initrd support that
> > Micheal has recently put in place.
> > 
> > http://ipxe.org/scripting

> I don't see any mentions of initrd in there :(
> Embedding a script should work with either ipxe or gpxe

Michael has recently committed a change to allow scripts to be called
via initrd, you can now simply place your iPXE script as a file within
the filesystem, and modify (iso|sys|pxe)linux.cfg to include "APPEND
initrd=script.ipxe".

The commit is here:

http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/27fdb95


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Tim Fletcher <[email protected]>


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