EFI network boot loader for ia32?
Fred Clift
fclift at verio.net
Wed Apr 27 12:11:55 PDT 2005
This might better belong on -questions, this isn't the most technical
question, but it is obscure...
I've recently been loaned an eval server indirectly from intel. It is
an SR-2400. We've been using SR-2300s for a while now and have been
doing custom network installs via PXE.
I note that these new servers have ia32 EFI support and that the only
net-booting they support is via EFI. I can DHCP boot the box via the
EFI boot manager menu that comes up, I get an address and it tftp's a
file from the right server but of course the pxeboot bootfile doesn't
work. I downloaded the indel EFI SDK and it has some sample EFI
binaries (a test binary, one that draws some cute little boxes on the
screen etc) and I can boot and run those just fine...
I understand that EFI netbooting works fine on (was designed to work
on?) ia64 boxes - is there support for netbooting via EFI on ia32?
I see /usr/src/sys/boot/EFI - can I somehow build a loader.efi that
would work via netboot for ia32?
Thanks in advance for any help...
Fred Clift
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