[gPXE] Chaining gPXE with intel PXE
Kyle Kienapfel
doctor.whom at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 20:49:25 EDT 2010
these cover the PE environment
http://etherboot.org/wiki/winpe
http://etherboot.org/wiki/winpe_memdisk
Replacing tftp with http for the "NBP" step will only work if the
"NBP" uses the PXE rom for the download. eg Hey PXE I'd like boot.sdi,
kthx.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Shedis <shedis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently came across gPXE. and then went through one of those google talk sessions. Excellent work.
>
> Past 1 year i have working with OS Image deployment setups (mainly windows), the setup is based around intel PXE.
>
> PXE > DHCP> NBP >
>
> Here the NBP does some UDP connection work and sends some data over to server. Depending on the response either boots the machine to locally installed os (HDD) or download boot.sdi,winpe.wim (170MB). Offcourse all this over tftp.
>
> NBP is a vendor provided code. so no chance to change it.
>
> I would like to use tcp/ip (http) to download the winpe.wim. the reasons are obvious performance and scalability.
>
> How can i use gPXE with this setup? Can i chain it
>
> Regards,
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