When booting iPXE from a filesystem (e.g. a FAT-formatted USB key) it
can be useful to have an iPXE script loaded automatically from the
same filesystem. Compared to using an embedded script, this has the
advantage that the script can be edited without recompiling the iPXE
binary.
For the BIOS version of iPXE, loading from a filesystem is handled
using syslinux (or isolinux) which allows the script to be passed to
the iPXE .lkrn image as an initrd.
For the UEFI version of iPXE, the platform firmware loads the iPXE
.efi image directly and there is currently no equivalent of the BIOS
initrd mechanism.
Add support for automatically loading a file "autoexec.ipxe" (if
present) from the root of the filesystem containing the UEFI iPXE
binary.
A combined BIOS and UEFI image for a USB key can be created using e.g.
./util/genfsimg -o usbkey.img -s myscript.ipxe \
bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi bin/ipxe.lkrn
The file "myscript.ipxe" would appear as "autoexec.ipxe" on the USB
key, and would be loaded automatically on both BIOS and UEFI systems.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The "-e" option required for creating EFI boot images is supported
only by widely used patched versions of genisoimage.
Check that the required options are supported when selecting a mkisofs
equivalent, thereby allowing a fallback to the use of xorrisofs when
building a UEFI ISO image on a system with an unpatched version of
genisoimage.
Continue to prefer the use of genisoimage over xorrisofs, since there
is apparently no way to inhibit the irritatingly useless startup
banner message printed by xorrisofs even when the "-quiet" option is
specified.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
For FAT filesystem images larger than a 1.44MB floppy disk, round up
the image size to a whole number of 504kB cylinders before formatting.
This avoids losing up to a cylinder's worth of expected space in the
filesystem image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow generated filesystem images to be accessed using the file:// URI
syntax by setting a defined volume name. This allows a script placed
on the same filesystem image to be accessed using e.g.
chain file://iPXE/script.ipxe
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Extract the PE header offset from the MZ header rather than assuming a
fixed offset as used in the binaries created by the iPXE build system.
This allows genfsimg to be used to create bootable filesystem images
from third party UEFI binaries such as the UEFI shell.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add support for xorrisofs, a GNU mkisofs equivalent that is available
in most distro repositories.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Generalise util/geniso, util/gensdsk, and util/genefidsk to create a
single script util/genfsimg that can be used to build either FAT
filesystem images or ISO images.
Extend the functionality to allow for building multi-architecture UEFI
bootable ISO images and combined BIOS+UEFI images.
For example:
./util/genfsimg -o combined.iso \
bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi \
bin-arm64-efi/ipxe.efi \
bin/ipxe.lkrn
would generate a hybrid image that could be used as a CDROM (or hard
disk or USB key) on legacy BIOS, x86_64 UEFI, or ARM64 UEFI.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
