Hmm, any takers for a mkefi to wrap linux images? I'm not smart enough myself...<div><br></div><div>Also, how about booting esxi (or any multiboot image for that matter) via EFI?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Geoff Lywood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glywood@vmware.com">glywood@vmware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">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. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
<a href="mailto:gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org" target="_blank">gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org" target="_blank">gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jarrod Johnson<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:oremanj@gmail.com" target="_blank">oremanj@gmail.com</a><br>
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<a href="mailto:gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org" target="_blank">gpxe-devel-bounces@etherboot.org</a>; <a href="mailto:gpxe-devel@etherboot.org" target="_blank">gpxe-devel@etherboot.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gPXE-devel]
snponly.efi functionality</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <<a href="mailto:oremanj@gmail.com" target="_blank">oremanj@gmail.com</a>>
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as an intermediary.<br>
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Josh<br>
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