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  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

Alright, I figured it out. Posting my findings here in case someone else stumbles across this in the future. The main issue is that the linux files hosted in basically all of Ubuntu's builds (netboo...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-04, 02:21
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

Fair - the ipxe chain example I just gave was a bad one. I didn't realize that was an x86 build. The linux images I've been referencing are arm64 specific. They're in the Ubuntu arm64 build tree. Ye...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-04, 00:16
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

Going to add one more data point. Running: Code: chain http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.pxe Also gives an 'exec format error'. It seems that iPXE is failing to recognize basically any img type except ISO...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-03, 23:17
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

Small update. I tried: Code: imgfetch -n linux http://..linux, imgfetch -n initrd.gz http://..initrd.gz imgfetch -n bootnetaa64.efi http://..bootnetaa64.efi imgselect bootnetaa64.efi boot And sam...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-03, 21:41
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

I think I'm coming to a better understanding about the bootloading process, but need some clarification/validation. If I understand this correctly, iPXE is a bootloader in a similar vein as Grub. So ...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-03, 18:18
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: RE: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server ...

(2019-05-02 22:56)NiKiZe Wrote:  you are starting iPXE on ARM correct? Are you from there starting an ARM kernel? Yep, using iPXE on arm aarch64 with UEFI. (2019-05-02 22:56)NiKiZe Wrote: &nb...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-03, 02:13
  Thread: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with iPXE script
Post: Net-booting an EFI image on an aarch64 server with...

I'm having some problems getting netboot to work on a UEFI based arm 64-bit system (Ampere Computing eMAG). Right now I'm just trying to get Ubuntu to work. I was originally trying to use a file lik...
travislazar General 8 18,481 2019-05-01, 23:23