===== iPXE-related quotes ===== {{ :thanks:konobi.jpeg?204x154|Some beer}} A selection of quotes taken from the [[https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel|mailing list]], [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ipxe|#ipxe IRC channel]], and [[http://forum.ipxe.org|iPXE discussion forum]]. Please feel free to add to this page! === 2012-18-07 === also.. holy crap, I've never seen a computer netboot that quick before (in response to some recent [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/07bc73e|TCP/IP tweaks]]) === 2012-04-20 === From: Andrew Bobulsky I have to ask... are you an alien with magical powers? (posted to the [[http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-April/001417.html|mailing list]] upon discovering the newly rewritten [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/2a0154d|Realtek driver]]) === 2009-08-08 === At the point you're talking about, the system is not fully initialised. On many systems, the memory map is not yet valid. If running normal BIOS-level code is marked with "Here be dragons", running during POST is marked with "Here be huge, ugly, vindictive, sociopathic dragons with a mean sense of humour" (during a GSoC 2009 progress meeting, discussing ideas for handling [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/06a8398|large ROM images]])