[gPXE] etherboot and WDS

[Marty Connor]

James wrote on 1/15/10 5:12 PM:
> On 15-Jan-10 12:00 Marty Connor wrote:
>> James wrote on 1/15/10 12:53 PM:

> I'm currently in a sticky situation. I have problems adopting gPXE
> because it doesn't work well with the Bochs BIOS that ships with
> qemu 0.9.1. Updating qemu to 0.12 isn't an option so that leaves me
> to either figure out what it will take to patch qemu to use SeaBIOS,
> fix Etherboot to work with WDS, or hack gPXE to behave more like
> Etherboot when identifying qemu's Bochs BIOS as PnP capable.
> Etherboot hooks in fine but gPXE uses int 19h.

I'm guessing that getting gPXE to not print the prompt and wait for 
input would not be too hard to do.

Even if there is a small private patch you need to apply, it might make 
your life easier.  Perhaps we can conditionalize somehow.

Besides the prompt, are there any other things that gPXE is doing that 
are problematic for you?  We'd like to help you migrate if we can.

If there is a little bit of funding we might get one of our core devs 
interested in helping with a patch.  Feel free to email me privately to 
chat about that.

I'm hopeful we can find a solution that meets your needs and helps you 
use gPXE.

Regards,

Marty