How To Install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8. ipxe-roms-qemu is Network boot loader roms supported by QEMU, .rom format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `ipxe-roms-qemu`

iPXE is an open source network bootloader. It provides a direct replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs, with many extra features such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, etc. This package contains the iPXE ROMs for devices emulated by QEMU, in .rom format.

We can use yum or dnf to install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipxe-roms-qemu.

Install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-roms-qemu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipxe-roms-qemu

Install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ipxe-roms-qemu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipxe-roms-qemu

How To Uninstall ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ipxe-roms-qemu package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipxe-roms-qemu

ipxe-roms-qemu Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/ipxe-roms-qemu
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-roms-qemu/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-roms-qemu/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/doc/ipxe-roms-qemu/COPYING.UBDL
/usr/share/ipxe
/usr/share/ipxe.efi
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/10222000.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/10ec8029.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/10ec8139.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/15ad07b0.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/1af41000.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/8086100e.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/808610d3.rom
/usr/share/ipxe.efi/80861209.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/10222000.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/10ec8029.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/10ec8139.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/15ad07b0.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/1af41000.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/8086100e.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/808610d3.rom
/usr/share/ipxe/80861209.rom

References

ipxe-roms-qemu website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms-qemu on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.