On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:18 +0000, Simon Kelley wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > Hi all; the blade-based systems I'm currently using use PXE to boot and > > all is well. However, the next generation blades will be using UEFI and > > I'm not very familiar with it. I can't seem to find any good docs for > > network booting with UEFI either. Does anyone have any examples of > > using UEFI with dnsmasq? Any instructions for dhcp options that might > > be needed? > > As far as I can see, EFI systems use PXE, just the same, so the dnsmasq > configuration isn't really different. Of course the environment seen by > the first-stage loader you supply will be different, so you'll need to a > different binary (a quick google says elilo.efi instead of pxelinux, but > don't quote me on that).
Somehow I got onto grub for an EFI loader and I was massively confused (and it didn't work). Grub simply doesn't appear to be interested in supporting network boot very well. After I sent my email last night I continued searching and I found eLILO and that seems much, much better (it even has some straightforward docs on how to netboot with it), although I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test it. Seems odd (wasn't grub supposed to be the "grand unified bootloader"?), but for anyone who has to deal with EFI/UEFI, at least with netboot, I strongly recommend you ignore grub and go get eLILO. Thanks Simon. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psm...@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
