[gPXE] boot selecting card (via MAC?)

[Shao Miller]

Oh but I should also ask: Why are you using an .ISO wrapper, when all you
really need is gpxe.lkrn?  GRUB4DOS can load and execute a Linux x86
kernel-format binary directly, as my example suggests.  - Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Shao Miller [mailto:sha0.miller at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 21:40
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
Cc: 'Alessandro Dentella'
Subject: RE: [gPXE] boot selecting card (via MAC?)

Not that I know of.

There were patches for gpxe.lkrn to accept a command-line, but I don't
believe they were ever merged into gPXE.  If they had've been, then you
might do something like:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)
  find --set-root /boot/grub/gpxe.iso
  map /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff) || map --mem /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff)
  map --hook
  root (0xff)
  kernel /gpxe.lkrn some_command_line_maybe_with_mac_address

But then you'd still need some enhanced gPXE scripting capabilities to deal
with choosing the right network interface.

I believe that this can be accomplished with iPXE.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org [mailto:gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org] On
Behalf Of Alessandro Dentella
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 09:14
To: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: [gPXE] boot selecting card (via MAC?)


Hi,

I've just installed some Linux boxes with dual boot: Windows on the HD and
Linux LTSP via gPXE.

I used Grub4dows with an entry like this:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)
  find --set-root /boot/grub/gpxe.iso
  map /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff) || map --mem /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff)
  map --hook
  chainloader (0xff)

In some pc I added a second ethernet card since the integrated one was not
fast.

The boot process sometime does not work correctly as the wrong card is used
and it waits forever or enters a reboot loop. 

I could select the correct driver only but that's more complicated to manage

as I have several different cards.

Is it possible to tell the gpxe.iso which MAC address is supposed to use?

thanks in advance
sandro
*:-)
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