Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
Contributed by Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
+Updated by Jason Fleischli <jason.fleischli@hp.com>
-Last updated: 03/08/11
+Last updated: 10/19/2009
+
+x86_64 and uefi support was added @ elilo version 3.8 and linux kernel >= 2.6.24
EFI has full support for the PXE and DHCP protocol. As such
it is relatively easy to boot a machine from the network using EFI.
This filename is an opportunity to specify a machine specific configuration file.
- 2) AA[BB[CC]][-ia32|ia64].conf
+ 2) AA[BB[CC]][-ia32|ia64|x86_64].conf
As of version 3.5, elilo will also look for IPv4 class A,B,C
subnet-specific versions of the config file. This is useful when you
want to have a common config file for all machines connected to a
config files first (So for example, on an Itanium system,
"0A0000-ia64.conf" will be tried before "0A0000.conf")
- 3) elilo-ia32.config or elilo-ia64.conf
+ 3) elilo-ia32.conf, elilo-x86_64.conf, or elilo-ia64.conf
- Depending on the machine (client side) architecture elilo will try the IA-32 or
- IA-64 file.
+ Depending on the machine (client side) architecture elilo will try the matching
+ architecture specific filename.
This filename is an opportunity to specify a architecture specific configuration file.
This distinction between the architectures is useful when the same TFTP server services
- the two types of clients : IA32- and IA-64 machines.
+ the three types of clients : ia32, x86_64, and ia64 machines.
4) elilo.conf
- use the name provide by the PXE server Layer 1 or
- - elilo-ia64.conf/elilo-ia32.conf or
+ - elilo-ia64.conf/elilo-ia32.conf/elilo-x86_64 or
- elilo.conf
In the case of a DHCP boot, this type of customization makes sense only for
- the shared configuration file, elilo-ia64.conf/elilo-ia32.conf or elilo.conf.
+ the shared configuration file, elilo-ia64.conf/elilo-ia32.conf/elilo-x86_64 or elilo.conf.
The configuration file based on the IP address (such as C0A80205.conf in this
case) would provide another way of customizing parameters for a specific
client (IP address). The same thing holds if the name of the config file