[Dnsmasq-discuss] Chainloading a more featureful iPXE from a limited iPXE

john doe johndoe65534 at mail.com
Tue Nov 6 05:11:04 GMT 2018


On 11/5/2018 9:33 PM, Mark Gardner wrote:
> (I hope this isn't in a FAQ somewhere that I was unable to find...)
> 
> VirtualBox uses iPXE for it's boot BIOS but the feature set is quite
> limited (due to lack of space apparently). I would like to boot URIs such
> as HTTPS and use commands such as sanboot which requires a newer, more
> featureful iPXE.
> 
> https://gist.github.com/robinsmidsrod/4008017 shows how to chainboot a
> different iPXE using DHCPD. I would like to do something similar only using
> dnsmasq. Has anyone been successful in doing this and have a config they
> can share?
> 
> Work around: a newer iPXE can be obtained by booting ipxe.iso instead of
> using the built-in iPXE. (But I would like to figure out how to do it
> strictly over the network.)
> 

Not strictly an answer; have you considered qemu?:

https://github.com/qemu/ipxe

-- 
John Doe



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