[Bug 819486] Re: cannot boot from network - roms missing

[Michal Suchanek]

I am not particularly concerned which roms are used so long as they are
easily available.

As is it is nearly impossible to find the roms. There are many packages
concerning pxe so digging the right one when kvm does not even suggest
it is quite difficult.

The etherboot roms are mostly broken but at least the rtl8139 one works
in most cases so that's good enough.

Not that ipxe is much better. Either tends to fail miserably if you
happen to load the the pxeonly image of ipxe/gpxe and boot using that.
With the new ipxe roms there is at least some hope somebody might fix
them someday, though.

Note that the ipxe roms need to be padded (eg using truncate) to 32k/64k
before they can be used in kvm.

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