- Issued:
- 2010-03-30
- Updated:
- 2010-03-30
RHEA-2010:0240 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
new package: gpxe
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new package, gPXE, is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
Description
gPXE is an open source Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) implementation
and bootloader. Designed to be direct replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs,
gPXE also supports additional protocols such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI and ATA
over Ethernet. gPXE is a significantly restructured update to the original
Etherboot package.
Previously gPXE was available as a separate, and not officially supported,
ISO image. As part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 update, a gPXE
package containing ROMs for devices emulated by QEMU is now available as an
integrated and supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux package. (BZ#512045 &
BZ#545886)
Note: gPXE does not replace etherboot. Both packages, howver, write their
.zrom files to the same directory -- /usr/share/pxe-boot. KVM links to
whatever ROM files are present in /usr/share/pxe-boot and installing gPXE
provides support for several specific PXE servers that are not supported by
Etherboot.
KVM users wanting PXE server support not provided by Etherboot should
install this new package.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 545886 - Inclusion of gpxe package
- BZ - 546606 - gpxe: allow gpxe/etherboot to be selected at configuration time
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gpxe-0.9.7-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3943c16f4353a3de4b09bff2aff6c50a6a1a6ccc8ac09f746efe472889598443 |
x86_64 | |
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 5eda44f0061bffacf14b549d64e24f5294ef4b0c5d1e986a710321f8a229e1e5 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
gpxe-0.9.7-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3943c16f4353a3de4b09bff2aff6c50a6a1a6ccc8ac09f746efe472889598443 |
x86_64 | |
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-8.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 5eda44f0061bffacf14b549d64e24f5294ef4b0c5d1e986a710321f8a229e1e5 |
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