iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware. It provides a full PXE implementation enhanced with additional features
Additional features to the base PXE specification include:
- Network booting from GRUB using iPXE
- PXE boot firmware
- PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
- Boot from a web server via HTTP
- Boot from an iSCSI SAN
- Boot from a Fibre Channel SAN via FCoE
- Boot from an AoE SAN
- Boot from a wireless network
- Boot from a wide-area network
- Boot from an Infiniband network
- Control the boot process with a script
You can use iPXE to replace the existing PXE ROM on your network card, or you can chainload into iPXE to obtain the features of iPXE without the hassle of reflashing.
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
All code Code
- Version control system:
- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- C
All packages Packages in Distributions
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ipxe source package in Xenial
Version 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-1ubuntu1.2 uploaded -
ipxe source package in Trusty
Version 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2ubuntu1.1 uploaded -
ipxe source package in Sid
Version 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 uploaded -
ipxe source package in Mantic
Version 1.21.1+git-20220113.fbbdc3926-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
ipxe source package in Lunar
Version 1.21.1+git-20220113.fbbdc3926-0ubuntu1 uploaded
