Update Intel E1000 PXE ROM

[Yannick]

HI all,

I need to know if is it possible to upgrade the current iPXE ROM (Intel E1000) to the lastet version of iPXE ? Some command like "menu" are not available in the current ROM.

If yes, can you give me a howto ?

Thanks,
Regards,
Yannick

 

[philk1989]

I know this is an old post, but it seems that even 3.4 does not have the latest iPXE rom. I did the following to get the latest iPXE firmware to load:https://gist.github.com/papamoose/e0b18d002f8686aaf767

# clone iPXE
git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git
cd ipxe/src

# build ipxe rom
make bin/8086100e.rom    # e1000
make bin/virtio-net.rom  # virtio
make bin/10ec8139.rom    # rtl8139 

# now copy into /usr/share/kvm. Backup the old copies first.
cp bin/8086100e.rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.rom
cp bin/virtio-net.rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-virtio.rom
cp bin/10ec8139.rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-rtl8139.rom