UEFI PXE step by step instructions?
Suffering an XY problem here: I want to set up a small machine to work as DHCP/ TFTP server to serve as part of an autobuilder to provision lots of machines built as a
standard build for Debian 8. I have a set up for providing PXE from a Cubietruck running Debian.
I have a TFTP/DHCP set up which uses the netboot.tar.gz files and will serve PXE quite happily if the client machine is using legacy boot mode.
I can't find any references for how to PXE boot UEFI: I find lots of posts complaining that pxelinux.0 is not compatible with UEFI and not much more.
I can obviously install to a UEFI machine with a netinst CD/USB stick but that doesn't help me set up the PXE for a UEFI machine.
Ubuntu folk have previously made much of UEFI support, Secure Boot etc - their docs specify that you shoud use a specific Ubuntu image if you can find it - not much
use at all even if you trust Ubuntu to do the
right thing with their own documentation.
Debian docs - can't find much except posts by Paul Wise around about the time that Sledge was developing the UEFI images for Jessie.
I can serve other files other than pxelinux.0 but there doesn't seem to be any usable documentation explaining what to set up.
Anybody willing to talk me through this in words of one syllable - we might then get better instructions for the next iteration of the installation manual or the Wiki.
All help very gratefully received
Andy CAter
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