On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2016 10:16:24 Philip Hands wrote: > > If so, we could just check for '#!ipxe' and if found downgrade the > > error to a warning, or perhaps to log what happened but otherwise > > ignore it. > > As DHCP bootfile can be served for any application, I think that Debian > Installer should check that file is for him, not that file is for PXE... > > With your way, to just check for '#!ipxe' can be broken again in future > once there will be another application which will use bootfile option. > And it could be any fork of ipxe with new name... as it was before with > gpxe...
True In #848726 ( https://bugs.debian.org/848726 848...@bugs.debian.org ) is a discussion about choosing a string that makes a preseed file easy identifable by computer. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven