EtherBoot/GPXE Wiki

Here you will find various information about the EtherBoot Project, and a repository of useful contributions from people who use EtherBoot and gPXE.

• General EtherBoot information
  • Introduction: A typical network boot scenario, including explanations for new users
  • Logos for Etherboot and rom-o-matic.net
  • Troubleshooting FAQ
• EtherBoot image types explanation
• How to specify which boot file to load
• Having more than one DHCP-server on a network
• EtherBoot in virtual machines / EtherBoot in emulators
  • How to use EtherBoot in a VMware virtual machine
  • How to use EtherBoot as ROM in the VMware BIOS / EtherBoot ROM in VMware's and Bochs' network cards
  • How to use EtherBoot with Bochs
• Burning ROM chips
  • More specific: for Realtek 8139 NICs
• Booting Memdisk
  • Diskless MS-DOS (and compatibles)
  • Diskless Windows 98
• Loading EtherBoot from a Windows 2000/XP NT loader
• Using EtherBoot with Microsofts Remote Installation Services (RIS)
• Putting EtherBoot into your BIOS
• Booting FreeBSD
• Using LILO with EtherBoot
• mknbi utility description and manpage

EtherBoot main function is to network boot a PC.

Besides, there are quite some optional features that can be added by compiling them into EtherBoot:

• Using EtherBoot as a PXE boot rom
• Using EtherBoot as a PXE 2nd-stage-loader
• Multicast protocol support (slam/tftp-multicast)
• Experimental SafeBootMode cryptographic boot image check
• ATA-over-Ethernet (experimental)
• more to be documented…

• ToDo-List
• Developers' manual

We are very pleased to be participating in Google's 2006 Summer of Code Project!

• Here are EtherBoot/gPXE Ideas and Resources for Google Summer of Code.