[gPXE] Chaining gPXE with intel PXE

[rulerof at gmail.com]

Shedis,

 From what I understand, Kyle's assessment here is correct. You can most  
definitely attempt dropping a chainloaded gPXE image, probably  
undionly.kpxe or .kkpxe, into your current PXE deployment and just See How  
Things Go(TM). The various "How To" guides on the wiki cover the steps  
there pretty well, and we can of course give you a hand if need be.

Though I may be pointing out the obvious, if possible could you tell us  
what your NBP is or what software product you're using? Supposing it's not  
an entirely custom app, others on the mailing list may have experience  
integrating gPXE with your product or something similar.

Best of luck,
Andrew Bobulsky



On Mar 30, 2010 8:49pm, Kyle Kienapfel <doctor.whom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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