Bob Fraser
under review
Ganesh Sathyanarayanan
Please add support for iPXE over UEFI. We want to use UEFI, as it is required for Secure Boot, and security is an integral & critical part of our solution.
Over iPXE we would boot an 'initial-image' which is minimalistic in nature. It's main & only job is to download and execute an image installer, which amongst other things creates a EFI System Partition, and installs a NILE signed kernel and bootloader.
In order to be able to do this, it has to be running in an UEFI-booted environment, and hence we need iPXE support in UEFI (from where out initial-image is booted from)
Manuel Mendez
Ganesh Sathyanarayanan: This should already be possible. All our machines first boot to iPXE when being provisioned, both BIOS and UEFI based ones. What isn't working for you?
Ganesh Sathyanarayanan
Manuel Mendez: When we set the Boot Mode to Legacy in BIOS, the iPXE script that put in gets executed and the unit boots up fine. However if we set this to UEFI, it just drops to the UEFI Shell prompt. Doesn't exec our iPXE script
We use PXEBOOT in a diff network-element in the same project (which also coincidentally is a Supermicro). But that's regular PXEBOOT wherein it checks each link for Link Up and if so, tried to get an ipaddr and fetch an image over TFTP.