I just built the latest version and booted up the MacMini2,1 I have here. So boots on the older ones still at least.
Brandon On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:07:59 -0500 Brandon Penglase <bpenglase-i...@spaceservices.net> wrote: > For what it's worth at this point, there is this little gem from 4.5 > years ago (oh god...): > https://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/ipxe.git/commit/5de37e124fd21c8f918f3fe26fc33a764709ead4 > > Basically it would allow you to reference the fat ipxe efi binary as > the Booter file from the DHCP server, and boot ipxe directly. > > I can't say if it currently works or not (I could spin it up and try > against an old Mac Mini). Does still build and combine though: > 1.8M Feb 21 21:06 fat-ipxe.efi > > The sad part is that any of the new machines won't work with this, or > USB, unless you boot it up and disable SecureBoot. I find it really > sad they effectively got rid of Netbooting.. but that's Apple. > > Brandon Penglase > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:20:20 +0100 > Sebastian Roth <sebar...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > On 2/20/19 11:26 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: > > > Macs don't netboot in the usual PXE fashion (dhcp to get a local > > > IP > > > + tftp to load a image of a tftp server). > > > They have another mechanism called Boot Server Discovery Protocol > > > (BSDP). That mechanism can then be used to then load ipxe. > > > > While you are right about it being a bit different to PXE boot and > > called BSDP in the Apple world I wouldn't say "Macs don't netboot in > > the usual PXE fashion". The base of BSDP is not far from PXE netboot > > I find. > > > > > > >> On 20 Feb 2019, at 17:27, Matthew Turner <supra_m...@yahoo.com > > >> <mailto:supra_m...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > >> > > >> We have a number of Apple iMac's 14,2 & 17,1 machines. > > > > You might want to read through those posts as well as we had people > > with particular iMacs (depends on the NIC model) that couldn't be > > made to boot from network using iPXE: > > https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10615/ipxe-booting-possibly-broken-on-os-x-sierra-update > > (see the topics on iMacs linked there too) > > > > Keeping my fingers crossed that you have other NICs in your iMacs! > > > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > > ipxe-devel mailing list > > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
