Hello Don, I haven't any problem with iPXE (used on my libvirt/KVM hypervisor). Yesterday i have booted on a pxelinux which chainload a OpenBSD pxeboot.0 (because i have made a menu for tests to choose automated debian install or OpenBSD.
I will look at Nick's word tonight, but i think it's one very good way to do this. -- Best regards, Loïc BLOT, UNIX systems, security and network expert http://www.unix-experience.fr Le mardi 13 août 2013 à 10:05 -0700, Don Jackson a écrit : > On Aug 13, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> wrote: > > > > I believe it's save to assume that a DHCP server is around, since this one > is needed anyways to pxeboot the box. > > So after the boot of our netboot.rd kernel, we need to figure out which > interface was used for pxe config and then do a dhclient on this interface. > > I thought Nick's work did much/all of this. > > > If we got an IP address, dhcp should probably give extra options, like the > config server url where we then can find and download the additional configs. > > > We could and probably should use DHCP options, since as stated above, dhcp > servers are available for the pxeboot anyways. > > Nick's work definitely did this. > > > Should we take this discussion off the list now? > > If so, who would like to be part of the next emails? > > I'd guess Loic, me, phessler (?), Nick Bender (?) and I will also add a > colleague some might know (Uwe Stuehler <uwe@>). > > I would like to be included in any further discussion either at this email > address or don dot jackson at gmail > > Here are two additional links that provide historical context, and links to > past work: > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/X01IcFJ0MVU/discussion > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailing.openbsd.tech/h1-jrS36lqo/discussion > > And lastly, IMHO, optionally, it would be nice if the eventual solution was > capable of being pxebooted via > > iPXE - open source boot firmware [start] > > At present, I have not been able to get bsd.rd or any sort of OpenBSD > installer to run via ipxe > > Best regards, > > Don [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
