How To Install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7. ipxe-roms is Network boot loader roms in .rom format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7.

What is ipxe-roms

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 in .rom format.

We can use yum or dnf to install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipxe-roms.

Install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install ipxe-roms

Install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install ipxe-roms

How To Uninstall ipxe-roms on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove ipxe-roms

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipxe-roms on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.