Re: Noob trying to build for x86_64-efi on an x86_64 legacy-booting PC [solved]

[Frantisek Rysanek]

On 7 Nov 2019 at 20:59, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
>
> On Thursday November 07, 2019, Frantisek Rysanek wrote: 
> 
> >Dear everyone,
> >
> >I'm trying to set up an UEFI netbooting environment in our LAN,
> >essentially to allow for diskless clients that don't support the
> >"legacy BIOS PXE-boot" anymore.
> >I've been using the legacy PXE boot for ages, and I've already
> >managed to configure my DHCP server to distinguish between legacy and
> >UEFI PXEbooting clients, now I need some bootloader for the client
> >machines. Historically I've been using PXElinux (and I'm still trying
> >to get it to work in UEFI mode too - out of scope here)
> >but it seems to me that Grub2 also looks suitable for the job.
> 
> I recommend iPXE.
> 
> http://ipxe.org/
> 
Dear Mr. Goldenberg,

I have to say that you have nailed it :-)
Hillarious.

To subvert the help-grub mailing list even further, I'm attaching a 
distilled basic config of iPXE for UEFI-booting diskless Linux.

Frank

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