On Thursday 09 Dec 2010 22:01:54 Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: > I'm not familiar with this embedded script capability. How would this work. > Would this method that you have described above work as follows: > > 1. The script sends the NIC's MAC address and PCI ID's to a script on a web > server. > 2. You have mentioned that this web server generates a dynamic image. > How would this work? > 3. Then the host to be booted can boot over http by pointing to the image > file on the web server. > > Do I understand this correctly?
Yes. You can use the embedded script to send a custom HTTP GET request, such as #!ipxe chain http://192.168.0.1/boot.php?mac=${mac}&serial=${serial:uristring} You can implement boot.php to do whatever you want in response to the parameters passed via the HTTP GET. For example, if your boot.php decides to create a new iSCSI target and direct the client to boot from it, it could return another script: #!ipxe sanboot iscsi:192.168.0.123::::iqn.2010-12.com.example:52:54:00:12:34:56 Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
