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Hope someone can help as I am a little lost at the moment. I have pulled down (yet again) the latest copy of iPXE, compiled with :

make bin/ipxe EMBED=bootstrap.ipxe

Are we compiling incorrectly? Everything succeeds, but when I boot and Ctrl-B and enter show version I only ever see iPXE 1.0.0+ with no revision in brackets.

If I download the ipxe.pxe file from http://boot.ipxe.org and use that, I can see iPXE 1.0.0+ (7405). I actually see a revision number, am I being dumb here, or is this an issue when you compile with an embeeded script?

(2013-09-27 14:53)sdlewis Wrote: [ -> ]Are we compiling incorrectly? Everything succeeds, but when I boot and Ctrl-B and enter show version I only ever see iPXE 1.0.0+ with no revision in brackets.

If I download the ipxe.pxe file from http://boot.ipxe.org and use that, I can see iPXE 1.0.0+ (7405). I actually see a revision number, am I being dumb here, or is this an issue when you compile with an embeeded script?

The revision number will be present only if you built from a git checkout using e.g.


If you are building from a tarball, then no version control information is available and so the revision number will not be included within the binary.

Hope that helps,

Michael