[Dnsmasq-discuss] pxe-service line for UEFI system?

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 08:33:54PM +0100, P W wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 07:30:44PM +0100, Michal Zatloukal wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 00:16, Michal Zatloukal <myxal.mxl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > In the meantime, I tried a simpler case [1] of UEFI PXE services
> > > config, which I confirmed to work.
> > >
> > > I intended to replace my config with this and work up towards the
> > > fancier tag-operated version, but made a wrong assumption and _added_
> > > the trivial config to existing set of config files (adding .bak to the
> > > filename didn't stop the original from being loaded). Strangely, now
> > > option 43 contained all services for CSA 7 - both conditional, and
> > > unconditional ones, which were previosly missing. This actually
> > > happens even when the new config file is reduced to a single,
> > > unconditional pxe-service line. That's not how this should work, or is
> > > it? Is there a particular order to these pxe-* config options? IMHO
> > > the fact that only the menu items are missing, but prompt is sent,
> > > should indicate that setting tags is correct.
> > >
> > > I'll do from-the-ground-up experiment soon, hopefully finding at which
> > > point dnsmasq stops sending the boot options.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > MZ
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > # Commented out to use my existing config, must be included if using standalone.
> > > #dhcp-range=10.0.0.10,10.0.0.240,2h
> > > #log-dhcp
> > > #tftp-root=/tftpboot
> > > #dhcp-no-override
> > > pxe-prompt="dnsmasq menu"
> > > pxe-service=0, "Boot BIOS PXElinux", bios/pxelinux
> > > pxe-service=0, "Boot BIOS iPXE", ipxe/undionly.kpxe
> > > pxe-service=7, "Boot UEFI CSA 7", efi64/syslinux.efi
> > > pxe-service=7, "Other item CSA 7",etc/other.efi
> > > pxe-service=9, "Boot UEFI CSA 9", efi64/syslinux.efi
> > > pxe-service=9, "Other item CSA 9",etc/other.efi
> > > pxe-service=0, "Exit menu"
> > > pxe-service=7, "Exit menu"
> > > pxe-service=9, "Exit menu"
> > 
> > 
> > Finally got to troubleshoot this today...
> > The issue arises when there's only a single "proper" pxe-service
> > configured (one that actually has a boot-filename defined). Is this
> > expected?
> > 
> > So this works:
> > pxe-prompt="dnsmasq menu"
> > pxe-service=7, "Boot UEFI CSA 7", efi64/syslinux.efi
> > pxe-service=7, "Other item CSA 7",etc/other.efi
> > pxe-service=7, "Exit menu"
> > 
> > But this does not:
> > pxe-prompt="dnsmasq menu"
> > pxe-service=7, "Boot UEFI CSA 7", efi64/syslinux.efi
> > pxe-service=7, "Exit menu"
> > 
> 
> Patches welcome
> 

Longer version:
* Seen the postings
* Seen that something needs some extra configuration
* What is expected from the dnsmasq project is not seen

Please do make the extra mile
and express how dnsmasq could be better.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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