iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board

[Daniel Braniss]

Hi Kamil,
Nice work! though I’m not that ambitious.
I need to be able to load pxeboot and that seems to
need some magic. BTW, do you know where there is 
some good docs on iPXE?

thanks,
	danny


On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:38 AM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Please look at my GSoC wiki page:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed
> 
> There is kpxe file, you can chainload it using file option in your dhcp server.
> 
> It's very simple script:
> 
> #!ipxe
> dhcp
> cpuid --ext 29 && set CPU-ARCH amd64 || set CPU-ARCH i386
> set img http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/10/${CPU-ARCH}/mfsbsd-10.0-RELEASE-${CPU-ARCH}.img
> kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk raw
> initrd ${img}
> boot
> 
> It detects architecture and runs mfsbsd directly from Martin Matuska website.
> 
> It's simpliest way to boot different iso or img image of FreeBSD. It
> will be nice to have local mirror and make menu with different
> releases. I'll prepare menu, but I need few days, I'll inform you.
> 
> I think that in next week will be ready iPXE port for FreeBSD and
> simply solutions.
> 
> I have many scripts to boot ubuntu, debian, etc. and I can help you
> with it. It's simple to run FreeBSD from nfs server too. Ask if you
> have problems.
> 
> Kamil
> 
> 2014-06-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>:
>> On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already
>>> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it’s going to be an
>>> interesting weekend :-)
>> 
>> 
>> If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are booting
>> a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). Otherwise,
>> it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the network.
>> 
>>        ---Mike
>> 
>> 
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