+1 -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -----Original Message----- From: infrastructure-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:infrastructure-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Fenzi Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:20 AM To: Fedora Infrastructure Subject: Freeze break request: add branched f17 to boot.fedoraproject.org Greetings. I need to sync up this commit: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=fedora-infrastructure.git;a=commit;h=0... to secondary01 for boot.fedoraproject.org. It removes some old serverbeach1 links (making them dl.fedoraproject.org), and adds a 'f17 branched' prerelease install option to boot.fedoraproject.org. Impact should be very low. kevin

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:27:55 +0200 Marko Myllynen <myllynen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: I wasn't involved with boot.fedoraproject.org last year. ;) No, we are using gPXE. I'm happy with moving to iPXE if it's better/more supported upstream. Do you want to work on that? Our setup is all in the fedora-infrastructure git repo: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=fedora-infrastructure.git;a=tree;f=bfo... If you want to work on it that would be great. Otherwise I will add it to my list, but it's not likely to be high priority. kevin

Hi, iPXE should be just a drop-in replacement for gPXE so what is mostly needed is to build the iPXE images. You can decide yourself which one seems to be more actively developed and maintained: http://git.etherboot.org/gpxe.git/shortlog http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/shortlog Basically all what's needed is to have a system with the needed tools to build the iPXE images (adjust the embedded image as needed): yum install git make gcc perl syslinux genisoimage git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git ipxe.git cd ipxe.git/src make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=bfo.gpxe bin/ipxe.iso make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=bfo.gpxe bin/ipxe.usb make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=bfo.gpxe bin/ipxe.dsk make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=bfo.gpxe bin/ipxe.lkrn The current README suggests that the web based rom-o-matic has been used for generating the gPXE images but for iPXE no such service exists so you'd need to compile the images on a suitable system and make them available then on b.f.o. Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen

Hi Kevin, well, forgive me asking, but are you sure you were in the right directory when you tried to build?-) FOO=bar defines a variable FOO for the build and the error you got was about the missing definition of the actual target, bin/ipxe.iso. Cheers, -- Marko Myllynen

Hi, Ok, now you're running make in the correct directory, however ... ... this means that the embedded script was not found. As mentioned the script contents and path need to be adjusted for what's appropriate for bfo. The reason I didn't say anything explicitly is that there seems to be conflicting information in the files README vs FEDORA-INFRA in fedora-infrastructure.git. After a bit of investigation it seems that README corresponds to current situation while FEDORA-INFRA does not. Perhaps we could continue to discussion about these details off-list or on IRC as needed? Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen