Can you re-test this now?

We are using the latest ipxe now...

Can you reopen if there's still a problem here?

No luck here :/

When I followed the instructions exactly, I got the "can't find command linux" error. So I tried to use "linuxefi" instead, since this is UEFI system. This gave me file '/bfo.lkrn' not found.

So I modified the /etc/grub2-efi.cfg (basically copying the other entries):

{{{
menuentry 'Boot BFO' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2 7ce53d1d-66d2-4193-9c60-04da20b15168
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7ce53d1d-66d2-4193-9c60-04da20b15168
fi
linuxefi /bfo.lkrn
}
}}}

This gave me "kernel too old" message.

This is still issue. And this might be related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894300

It seems that the IPXE kernel reports rather old version :/

{{{
$ file /boot/bfo.lkrn
/boot/bfo.lkrn: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 1.0.0+ (a937), RO-rootFS,

$ file /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64
/boot/vmlinuz-3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64 (mockbuild@bkernel02.phx2.fedoraproject., RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA
}}}

Faking the version to be 3.6+ might help.

Since this seems to be caused by Grub's naive version checks, I reported this issue here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215693

Finally I got somewhere. For UEFI, I can't load the .lkrn image, but I need to have something like bfo.efi. This was pointed out in this thread [1]. Nevertheless, such image is not available at BFO, so the question is now how to create/get it?

[1] http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2015-September/004413.html

So I did "make everything EMBED=script0.ipxe". This gave me bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi I used to boot and I succeeded. But didn't get far enough. It downloads the fedora configuration and tries to execute the "chain http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/bfo/pxelinux.0" and fails with

Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/err/2e0080)

This page says that for EFI, there should not be loaded the pxelinux.0, but iPXE menuing capabilities can be used.

[1] http://ipxe.org/cmd/choose

Can you test against the latest images now? I don't know that it's fixed, but I did update ipxe at f27beta.

So I talked with the former upstream for bfo, and they have not been running it for a long time due to lots of little issues. I would like to get an idea if this is something we should continue or if the bfo can be EOL.

This service was never really promoted. But I'd love to use it, since it should be supposedly the easiest way to get Fedora, because if I understand it correctly, this should allow me to boot Fedora without any media, just using iPXE. But it did not worked with UEFI and so far I had no chance to experiment with the new images. However, I am building new computer right now, so soon I might get chance to test the new images.

Thanks. We currently see 1 to 2 ip addresses a day use the service but do not get much/any feedback other than this ticket.

The problem is due to various factors outside of Fedoraprojects's control
* Lack of UEFI testing
* boot upstream is dead
* slow upstream support to ipxe

We will continue keeping the service going but it should be considered deprecated for what can be fixed/improved.