On Wednesday 08 Dec 2010 01:09:43 Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: > 1. Is it possible use ipxe on an already booted system to just retrieve the > "network boot program" (i.e boot loader) and the OS image only. > > 2. When built I am assuming ipxe generates an iso image which can be burned > onto disk. Is it possible to just have an executable that can be run on a > linux system for example. > > My goal is to try to build and modify this system to just use it to fetch > images and boot loaders from a PXE server, but not use it to boot the > system.
Thanks to Piotr Jaroszyński, you can build a version of iPXE that will run under Linux. For example: make bin-x86_64-linux/tap.linux ./bin-x86_64-linux/tap.linux --net tap,if=tap0,mac=00:0c:29:c5:39:a1 This is intended to be a developers' aide rather than a general-purpose tool for end users, but you should be able to use it for what you describe. You will need to set up a tap0 interface, which you can bridge to your normal network interface if you want to download files from a remote server. I'm not quite sure why you want to do this, but it should at least be possible! Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
