Subject: PXE Booting with uEFI BIOS

From: Valerio <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:08:06 +0200

Hi all,

I am trying to install debian jessie via PXE on a Dell R630 server with
uEFI BIOS.
I emulated a test bed with virtual machines that were using standard BIOS.
Now I am not able to replicate the installation on the server because
pxelinux.0 apparently doesn't work with uEFI.

Is there any documentation on how to setup Debian to boot with uEFI bioses?

many thanks in advance,
Valerio

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From: Dave Ryan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:47:03 -0700

Hi Valerio,

I was able to do the standard DVD install successfully with uEFI BIOS 
however I did not install via PXE boot install.

Dave

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From: "Thomas Schmitt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:48:15 +0200

Hi,

> pxelinux.0 apparently doesn't work with uEFI.

That's supposed to be normal.
  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX#UEFI
says:

  The "(l)pxelinux.0" bootloaders are capable of netbooting
  BIOS-based clients. Hardware using UEFI has to use the adequate
  "syslinux.efi" (for EFI IA32 or for EFI X64, respectively)
  instead of using "(l)pxelinux.0". 

Note that UEFI is normally not called "BIOS", but rather is considered
to be the successor firmware of old x86 BIOS.

Have a nice day :)

Thomas