EQ 12 PXE boot on F7

wheweldc

I can see that the PC suggects support PXE boot by selecting the boot order via the BIOS. Is there any way to add PCE boot to the boot menu invoked by F7.


Currently it has only 2 options; UEFI OS and UEFI Shell.

BIOS: N95V106

Cheers,

tuiguang11@azw-

I'm very sorry, we don't have such BIOS settings at the moment, but I will suggest it to our relevant staff.

tuiguang11@azw-

I asked the relevant staff about your question. You can enable the PCE in Network Stack Configuration. After enable, the PCE startup will appear on the f7 boot page.

wheweldc

tuiguang11@azw- replied at 2024-09-04 17:37
I asked the relevant staff about your question. You can enable the PCE in Network Stack Configuratio ...

Ahh, thank you. I will give that a go

wheweldc

Ok, so I have enabled PXE (IPv4) boot in the Network Stack Configuration and saved the BIOS. There is still no sign of PXE in the F7 boot options.

I have not yet setup a PXE server for the network. Is it possible the menu  item will only appear if the DHCP server reports a valid PXE source?

wheweldc

I have tried using the PXE server with my desktop PC and it works fine.

tuiguang11@azw-

wheweldc replied at 2024-09-05 05:42
I have tried using the PXE server with my desktop PC and it works fine.

For PXE boot questions, you can contact us at support-pc@bee-link.com
Let us help you better

wheweldc

Progress!

Using the tried and trusted technique of blundering around, I discovered a new menu option under 'Advanced-> Compatibility_Support_Module_Configuration' called 'Option_ROM_execution'.

There is an entry for 'Network'. I changed this from 'Do not launch' to 'UEFI'.

Now when I reboot and hit F7, there are 8(!) new entries in UEFI boot list - 2 ports, HTTP/PXE, IPV4/IPV6

Selecting the first PXE option triggers the process to download the OS selection from iVentoy and I install from there.

It would be good if the tech guys at Beelink could confirm that this is the way to go and there are no unintended consequences?

Cheers.

tuiguang11@azw-

wheweldc replied at 2024-09-05 19:26
Progress!

Using the tried and trusted technique of blundering around, I discovered a new  ...

I have confirmed with our R&D staff that there is no problem with setting it in the BIOS.