EFI network boot loader for ia32?

From: Fred Clift (fclift_at_verio.net)
Date: 04/27/05

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    This might better belong on -questions, this isn't the most technical
    question, but it is obscure...

    I've recently been loaned an eval server indirectly from intel. It is
    an SR-2400. We've been using SR-2300s for a while now and have been
    doing custom network installs via PXE.

    I note that these new servers have ia32 EFI support and that the only
    net-booting they support is via EFI. I can DHCP boot the box via the
    EFI boot manager menu that comes up, I get an address and it tftp's a
    file from the right server but of course the pxeboot bootfile doesn't
    work. I downloaded the indel EFI SDK and it has some sample EFI
    binaries (a test binary, one that draws some cute little boxes on the
    screen etc) and I can boot and run those just fine...

    I understand that EFI netbooting works fine on (was designed to work
    on?) ia64 boxes - is there support for netbooting via EFI on ia32?

    I see /usr/src/sys/boot/EFI - can I somehow build a loader.efi that
    would work via netboot for ia32?

    Thanks in advance for any help...

    Fred Clift
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