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Hi,

I followed this to build my 80861559.efirom, related to my Intel® Ethernet Connection I218-V card that seems to be integrated on my motherboard. In fact, I preferred at the end to use rom-o-matic to build it because I didn't get any issues with it. At the end, I followed the Intel IPXE doc and used Rufus to burn the specific dosboot.img to my USB key.

Is that right I can't burn 80861559.efirom to my Ethernet card with bootutil -nic 1 -restoreimage -file 80861559.efirom and that I need to mod my UEFI/BIOS to integrate IPXE on it?

Because when I did bootutil -e and pressed on TAB key, I didn't see any 80861559.efirom, but something like 808615..EFI and I couldn't anything with that file.

So, I'm asking if I have to use UEFI Bios Updater to mod my BIOS.

But I don't know how to use it...

Is chainloading finally the only way for my Intel NUC to use IPXE??

And I really don't know how to get a modded BIOS with an IPXE Option ROM instead of the classic LAN/PXE Option Rom. I really prefer IPXE. I have an Intel Visual BIOS FYI.

Any ideas?

Should I do with MMTool (I really don't know) and how? I'm lost.

Thanks in advance,
HLFH

If you don't know how to work with firmware images and have no knowledge of how to mod a bios I would not recommend trying to mod your BIOS/firmware. You might end up bricking your hardware. I would recommend you either use chainloading or boot from a tiny USB stick instead. I think you can actually put the USB stick inside the chassis on some NUCs.