Suffering an XY problem here: I want to set up a small machine to work as DHCP/ 
TFTP server to serve as part of an autobuilder to provision lots of machines 
built as a 
standard build for Debian 8. I have a set up for providing PXE from a 
Cubietruck running Debian.

I have a TFTP/DHCP set up which uses the netboot.tar.gz files and will serve 
PXE quite happily if the client machine is using legacy boot mode.

I can't find any references for how to PXE boot UEFI: I find lots of posts 
complaining that pxelinux.0 is not compatible with UEFI and not much more.

I can obviously install to a UEFI machine with a netinst CD/USB stick but that 
doesn't help me set up the PXE for a UEFI machine.

Ubuntu folk have previously made much of UEFI support, Secure Boot etc - their 
docs specify that you shoud use a specific Ubuntu image if you can find it - 
not much 
use at all even if you trust Ubuntu to do the
right thing with their own documentation.

Debian docs - can't find much except posts by Paul Wise around about the time 
that Sledge was developing the UEFI images for Jessie.

I can serve other files other than pxelinux.0 but there doesn't seem to be any 
usable documentation explaining what to set up.

Anybody willing to talk me through this in words of one syllable - we might 
then get better instructions for the next iteration of the installation manual 
or the Wiki.

All help very gratefully received

Andy CAter

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