[Bug 916494] Re: Please put ipxe.krn to the desktop CD

[Julian Andres Klode]

Certainly iPXE is a bad choice. It seems reasonable to add netboot lines
to the grub.cfg using the native support, not iPXE. iPXE is not suitable
for signing so it won't boot on most machines without disabling secure
boot, which is something you do not want to do.

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Title:
  Please put ipxe.krn to the desktop CD

Status in ipxe package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Please put ipxe.lkrn as a boot option in the isolinux menu of the live
  CDs, so that they can be used to netboot computers, either for
  network-based installation, or as LTSP clients, etc.

  The embedded iPXE script would do this:
  1) autoboot (that's an iPXE command)
  2) on failure, if no boot server exists on the local network, use http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/ to download the kernel via http and to start a network installation without downloading or burning mini.iso.

  It will only add a few Kb on the .iso, and it will make possible e.g.
  to reuse the 12.04 CDs to netboot and install 14.04.

  I can write the iPXE boot script if there's interest in it.

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