CTRL-B required to activate NICs PXE Image?

[NiKiZe]

(2017-09-16 18:52)hegi Wrote:  Now I have one problem: Upon boot I get the iPXE start message (... press CTRL-B to configure). But I have to press CTRL-B to activate iPXE on every single boot. - Depending on the image I then issue the manual commands or use an embedded script. If I use "config" there appears nothing to configure automatic invocation - I seemingly need CTRL-B to activate iPXE.

What I do not know: Is the acitvation of iPXE-boot expected to come from the bios, or are there specific options to configure? If bios interaction is required, I suppose I'm doomed .

As with any boot ROM it is only there and the BIOS initializes the ROM. However actually booting it requires that it is the "next boot device" so changing the boot order in BIOS is what you want to do.

I would expect that If it fails to boot from disk (there is no harddrive) and no other working boot device, it will eventually reach your NIC and boot from that.