[gPXE] how to use gpxe w/o dhcp

[Slawomir Latkowski]

Hi Yixuan,

Say it quite simple, you need to read gPXE documentation and you need to
create a script which will be loaded.
As gPXE will do 'autoboot' and there are procedures (get dhcp etc), you
need to replace it with your settings as, enable ethernet, set ip, read a
file or read source.
Probably you need to compile your own version of gPXE as well.

This is my own example. I would read documentation first.

Regards,
Slawek

W dniu 8 listopada 2011 16:55 użytkownik Yixuan Huang
<yixuan178 at gmail.com>napisał:

> Hello Gene,
> Thanks for your reply.
> Sorry, I am not catching your mean.  Here I have no DHCP server, and my
> client which I want to boot from gpxe cannot get any ip address, so how can
> I set my client, then connect remote server which store kernel. Does there
> has a command or in script I can type ip address for that client, like
> ifconfig under unix/linux. After I config ip, then I can connect server and
> get anything I want.
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 00:41, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Everyone,
>> > I have one question, if my environment doesn't have dhcp server, how
>> can I
>> > set ip for gpxe and load remote kernel?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > yixuan
>>
>>
>> Yes, you can embed a script into gPXE.  If a static script is
>> insufficient, you can have a static script in gPXE reference a static
>> or dynamic script generated from an HTTP server.  You could include
>> attributes like UUID, NIC MAC address, and IP as portions of the URL
>> when fetching the HTTP generated script.
>>
>> --
>> -Gene
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gPXE mailing list
> gPXE at etherboot.org
> http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/attachments/20111108/0d5cab82/attachment.html>