[gPXE-devel] snponly.efi functionality

[Jarrod Johnson]

Hmm, any takers for a mkefi to wrap linux images?  I'm not smart enough
myself...

Also, how about booting esxi (or any multiboot image for that matter) via
EFI?

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Geoff Lywood <glywood at vmware.com> wrote:

>  snponly.efi doesn’t really add anything currently. Some time ago, I sent
> around a patch that would allow other EFI applications to use gPXE’s network
> stack and all of the protocols it supports. However, the patch was never
> integrated, and the elilo side of the code was never written.
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> Your idea of bundling the kernel/initrd/elilo into a single EFI app sounds
> neat. It’s basically an mknbi command for EFI. I don’t believe that anyone
> has actually implemented something like this, though.
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> Geoff
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> *Subject:* Re: [gPXE-devel] snponly.efi functionality
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> Would snponly.efi add anything versus booting elilo directly?  e.g., even
> if I use snponly.efi, won't elilo tftp down the kernel/initrd, or is there
> some way to bundle a kernel/initrd/elilo into a single efi, or have elilo
> use enhanced protocol while running under gPXE a la pxelinux?
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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <oremanj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> No, but you can use ELILO as an intermediary.
>
> Josh
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