EFI network boot loader for ia32?

[Doug Rabson]

On 27 Apr 2005, at 20:10, Fred Clift wrote:

> This might better belong on -questions, this isn't the most technical 
> question, but it is obscure...
>
> I've recently been loaned an eval server indirectly from intel.  It is 
> an SR-2400.  We've been using SR-2300s for a while now and have been 
> doing custom network installs via PXE.
>
> I note that these new servers have ia32 EFI support and that the only 
> net-booting they support is via EFI.  I can DHCP boot the box via the 
> EFI boot manager menu that comes up, I get an address and it tftp's a 
> file from the right server but of course the pxeboot bootfile doesn't 
> work.  I downloaded the indel EFI SDK and it has some sample EFI 
> binaries (a test binary, one that draws some cute little boxes on the 
> screen etc) and I can boot and run those just fine...
>
> I understand that EFI netbooting works fine on (was designed to work 
> on?) ia64 boxes - is there support for netbooting via EFI on ia32?
>
> I see /usr/src/sys/boot/EFI - can I somehow build a loader.efi that 
> would work via netboot for ia32?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help...

The EFI boot loader does not support ia32 in its current state. It 
would be possible to port it to an ia32 EFI environment with some 
effort. It would be quite an advanced level project though.