Control: tags 927783 patch
On 2019-04-23, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> But, when booting under UEFI, /etc/grub.d/20_ipxe tries to load
> ipxe.lkrn instead of the correct ipxe.efi, and crashes.
>
> Here's a proposed patch that addresses the issue:
...
> This dynamically checks if the platform is efi or not, and loads the
> correct ipxe.{efi|lkrn},
> and additionally, in the BIOS case, it allows the user to provide an
> ipxe script in /boot/ipxe.ipxe, which is loaded as initrd.
> This functionality isn't yet supported by upstream iPXE under UEFI.
Updated patch against the packaging rather than the installed files:
diff --git a/debian/tree/ipxe/etc/grub.d/20_ipxe
b/debian/tree/ipxe/etc/grub.d/20_ipxe
index 8be37c8..d72a3ec 100755
--- a/debian/tree/ipxe/etc/grub.d/20_ipxe
+++ b/debian/tree/ipxe/etc/grub.d/20_ipxe
@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ if test -e "$IPXE" ; then
cat << EOF
menuentry "Network boot (iPXE)" --users "" --class network {
${prepare_boot_cache}
- linux16 $IPXEPATH
+ if [ "\$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
+ chainloader ${IPXEPATH%.lkrn}.efi
+ else
+ linux16 $IPXEPATH
+ if [ -f ${IPXEPATH%.lkrn}.ipxe ]; then
+ initrd16 ${IPXEPATH%.lkrn}.ipxe
+ fi
+ fi
}
EOF
fi
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