#2449 PR closed: Added PXE UEFI support to 810_create_pxelinux_cfg.sh (issue 2359)

Labels: enhancement, no-pr-activity

jsmeix opened issue at 2020-07-02 15:31:

  • Type: Enhancement

  • Impact: High

  • Reference to related issue (URL):
    https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2359

  • How was this pull request tested?
    Not at all tested by me because I do not use PXE.

  • Brief description of the changes in this pull request:

Manually added the additional lines from the diff output in
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2359#issuecomment-615197886

gozora commented at 2020-07-03 07:14:

I will certainly take a look, but I need to setup PXE testing environment first, which will take some time ...
@didacog aren't you guys heavily using PXE in DRLM ? Did you noticed some problems with UEFI based systems?

V.

didacog commented at 2020-07-06 05:51:

Hi @gozora,
Yes we use PXE boot all the time in DRLM with both BIOS and UEFI systems with no issues.

jsmeix commented at 2020-07-08 12:36:

@didacog
could you describe how your ReaR PXE setup for UEFI
is different compared to
the "ReaR PXE setup for RHEL/OEL 7 to boot with UEFI"
in https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2359
together with the also needed additional code in this pull request here?

In particular what is your etc/rear/local.conf
where PXE boot with UEFI works in your case?

didacog commented at 2020-07-09 08:07:

Hi,
We just configure a MACAddr file to setup the boot and adjust de vga to gfxpayload=vga of the kernel opts. See: https://github.com/brainupdaters/drlm/blob/develop/usr/share/drlm/backup/run/default/129_post_backup_tasks.sh

You can also take a look at out GRUB2 config on the server side: https://github.com/brainupdaters/drlm/blob/develop/var/lib/drlm/store/boot/grub/grub.cfg.

Its a mkstandalone GRUB image BTW in DRLM.

You can take a look in how we created it at: https://docs.drlm.org/en/2.3.1/building_grub2.html

Regards,
Didac

jsmeix commented at 2020-07-09 13:20:

As far as I understand https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2449#issuecomment-655976230
it means that DRLM uses its own scripts to set up PXE boot with UEFI
so PXE boot with UEFI can "just work" in DRLM while it can "just fail" in ReaR.

github-actions commented at 2020-10-14 01:49:

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[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]