Command line

iPXE includes an interactive command line that can be used for manual booting, diagnostics, and experimentation.

When iPXE starts up, you will see a welcome banner message:

  iPXE -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org
  Features: HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE FCoE TFTP COMBOOT ELF PXE PXEXT
  
  Press Ctrl-B for the iPXE command line...

If you press Ctrl-B at this point, you should reach the iPXE command line:

  iPXE>