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David Anderson 029be8d339 Force machines to chainload through Pixiecore's embedded iPXE.

This guarantees that we load the real OS from an iPXE with a known
featureset, rather than rely on the firmware iPXEs to be correct.

Also switch to ipxe.pxe for BIOS boots instead of undionly.kpxe.

ipxe.pxe works when you chainload from one iPXE to another, whereas
undionly.kpxe encounters some kind of poorly explained bug where
it loses the ability to configure networking.

Tested against the following configurations:
 - VirtualBox + BIOS w/ iPXE
 - VirtualBox + BIOS w/ Intel UNDI
 - VirtualBox + EFI
 - KVM + SeaBIOS w/ iPXE
 - KVM + OVMF (EFI)
 - Dell R610 + Dell BIOS/PXE

Fixes #51, fixes #52.

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LICENSE

cmd: make the GPLv2 pixiecore own the unadorned "pixiecore" binary name.

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main.go

Force machines to chainload through Pixiecore's embedded iPXE.

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README.md

cmd: make the GPLv2 pixiecore own the unadorned "pixiecore" binary name.

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README.md

Pixiecore, with embedded iPXE

This is a version of the Pixiecore tool that embeds iPXE binaries for all of Pixiecore's supported architectures/firmwares, so you don't have to handle building and deploying them yourself.

Due to iPXE's license, the result of embedding iPXE builds in the Pixiecore binary makes the overall binary fall under the terms of the GPLv2. See the LICENSE file in this directory for that license.

If you want an Apache-licensed build, check the "pixiecore-apache2" directory one level up for a build that doesn't embed iPXE (you have to supply iPXE binaries at runtime).