[Bug 916494] Re: Please put ipxe.krn to the desktop CD

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

> I'd love to see your iPXE boot script.

The easiest version is this:
#!ipxe
# We do assume that a DHCP server exists on the local network, e.g. a home router
autoboot

# The rest only happens if no local *boot* server exists
kernel http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/linux initrd=initrd.gz
initrd http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/initrd.gz
boot

You save the above as netboot.ipxe, and you load it from isolinux as an initrd of ipxe.lkrn:
linux16 ipxe.lkrn
initrd netboot.ipxe

(from some date in December and on, iPXE supports scripts as initrds)

In the URL above, the webmaster can maintain a "dists/current" symlink
so that "precise" isn't hardcoded.


A better idea would be to load pxelinux.0 instead of directly loading a kernel. This would allow for displaying a vesamenu, with which the user could graphically select from any supported distro series.

Unfortunately that would require a public tftp server, which webmasters
may not like. Instead, gpxelinux.0 could do the same over http, but I've
never used that.

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