@ipxe

iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware

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Experimental #iPXE boot images now published in @awscloud - try booting an EC2 instance directly from HTTP, HTTPS, or iSCSI
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As of today, you can network boot your @risc_v machines using #iPXE: github.com/ipxe/ipxe/pull/13…

[riscv] Add support for the RISC-V CPU architecture by mcb30 · Pull Request #1307 · ipxe/ipxe

Add support for building iPXE as a 64-bit or 32-bit RISC-V binary, for either UEFI or Linux userspace platforms. For example: # RISC-V 64-bit UEFI make CROSS=riscv64-linux-gnu- bin-riscv64-efi/ipx...

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Ever wanted to create a custom user interface in #iPXE? Now you can! ipxe.org/cmd/present
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wimboot v2.8.0 is finally released with support for network booting @Windows on @Arm - thanks to @2pintsoftware for sponsoring! github.com/ipxe/wimboot/rele…

Release v2.8.0 (2024-05-02) · ipxe/wimboot

Downloads Binaries wimboot (for BIOS and 64-bit UEFI systems) wimboot.i386 (for BIOS and 32-bit UEFI systems) wimboot.arm64 (for AArch64 UEFI systems) Source code wimboot-2.8.0.zip wimboot-2.8.0...

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if you committed this to a codebase i worked in, i would do everything in my power to replace this with a couple asserts and see to it you leave my team please for the future you do not commit code you don't understand
Atai Barkai
@ataiiam5 Mar 2024
Replying to @yoheinakajima
ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch. Took lots of convincing too. "come on, this must be possible, try harder". and obviously- done in parts.
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The BIOS trick of using "sanboot --drive 0x80" to force #iPXE to boot from a local disk now also works under UEFI: github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/…

[efi] Allow booting from local disks via the "sanboot" command · ipxe/ipxe@b1c13cc

Extend the EFI SAN boot code to allow for booting from a local disk, as is already possible with the BIOS SAN boot code. There is unfortunately no direct UEFI equivalent of the BIOS drive number. ...

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You can literally do this right now with iPXE. Boot your OS via HTTPS, use mTLS with a client cert if you want to. You're welcome. 🙂
Liam Kelly@Upsampled23 Feb 2024
Replying to @thebsdbox
My hot take: PXE boot did not go far enough. Images should be at HTTPS endpoints and auth should be mTLS. I want to completely recreate my machine from scratch anywhere, securely.
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Been a while since I had a mad idea, but is it possible to boot a machine (PXE) with eBPF 🐝 Time to find out.
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#iPXE can now work with the default (and arguably broken) DST Root CA X3 certificate chain provided by @letsencrypt 🥳 t.ipxe.org/929f06a76
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wondering whether you've open sourced your project? this flow chart's for you.
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the industry currently relies on a hard fought, narrowly circumscribed, widely understood and shared definition of what open source is. if it suddenly means something different, the term by definition becomes meaningless because that shared understanding is no longer shared.
Avi Press
@avi_press6 Feb 2024
Replying to @sogrady
Meaningless, or just different?
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#iPXE now includes support for ECDHE cipher suites (using the x25519 elliptic curve) in TLS 🥳
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Totally agree. Pull requests are always well intentioned contributions and it's great that people want to help out, but for anything non-trivial the code review can often be more work than it would be to write the code from scratch.
Alex Ellis
@alexellisuk20 Dec 2023
Replying to @fbuechsel
That's also a misconception. Every feature has to be reviewed, tested, documented and maintained forever by the maintainer.
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The client portion of this product is just an unmodified iPXE with the word "iVentoy" used in the menu title and background image...
Manel Rodero@manelrodero20 Oct 2023
It seems we have a new player on the field ;-) iventoy.com/en/index.html vs ipxe.org/ #PXE #Ventoy #iPXE
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BootGen 1.0 released for iPXE Anywhere customers to try out. I will generate USB keys for booting to iPXE without the need for PXE infrastructure. I can also add/sync BranchCache caches with the keys and back. This allows you to use any USB based dock to build any laptop/tablet!
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First stage of adding Unicode support to #iPXE is complete!
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Kudos to @intel for publishing comprehensive register-level programming documentation for their NICs! (Although the 77-page table of contents for the E180 datasheet could do with pruning!)
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LETS GO I FLASHED MY MAIN PC BIOS WITH @ipxe RATHER THEN INTEL UNDI I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA TURN MY PC INTO A BRICK
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Got #iPXE working on a 486 at last! t.ipxe.org/bc35b24e3 - with thanks to @osd1000, @bjh21_me_uk and @miscwaffle for providing suitable test hardware
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Thanks for the feedback! Just waiting for @Microsoft to sign the updated binary now.
Jérôme Bezet-Torres (#MVP x6 #MCT)@JM2K6921 Jan 2022
Replying to @ipxe
@ipxe it seems good #wimboot compatible #UEFI #Secureboot in release 2.7.4 seem good for ixpeserver. 👏👏 #Memcm #MEMPowered #MDT #PSD github.com/ipxe/wimboot/comm… github.com/ipxe/wimboot/blob…

[release] Release version 2.7.4 · ipxe/wimboot@160c3f0

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

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I just read the Clayton Craft's (colleague at @igalia) blog post. Interesting reading if you are looking for ideas about how to network booting ARM boards such the RPI4 or similar using @iPXE. (link: blog.craftyguy.net/ipxe-aarc…)

Network booting an aarch64 SBC with u-boot and iPXE

Network booting an aarch64 SBC with u-boot and iPXE

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