Questions tagged [pxe-boot]
The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, also known as Pre-Execution Environment; sometimes pronounced "pixie") is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of data storage devices or installed operating systems.
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Howto setup Cobbler with PXE if you can't change the dhcp server?
In the past I've setup a PXE server several times by making the normal dhcp server return everything needed for network booting: both the regular ip config AND bootinfo in a single dhcp setup. That ...
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How do I PXE boot multiple Windows 7 desktops off the same image?
Some years ago at my university, I recall that the labs there booted Windows NT over the network.
There was a shared drive for your own stuff and other than that any changes you did to the running OS ...
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PXE Booting Virtualbox guests in internal networking mode?
I am not sure if this is just specific to my distro's packages or is a vbox limitation. So, any help would be appreciated.
Ok, so I have a network of VMs, with one VM acting as a NAT for the other ...
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What is the PXE Client System Architecture Type "BC EFI (7)" from RFC 4578?
RFC 4578 defines various machine architectures for PXE as follows:
Type Architecture Name
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0 Intel x86PC
1 NEC/PC98
2 EFI Itanium
3 DEC Alpha
4 Arc ...
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Can PXE boot of Hyper-V VMs be disabled?
Hyper-V virtual machines have the ability to PXE boot. Obviously, PXE boot raises some security concerns. The problem is, unlike a typical physical machine's firmware, there isn't an obvious way to ...
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Changing network boot order (pxe) using ipmitool
Using ipmitool, I am trying to change the boot order to pxe boot first and from a particular interface.
As far as I am aware, ipmitool tool provides option to change the boot device but not ...
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MAC addresses on dual-NIC mainboards
Here's a weird problem.
We've got a number of devices with dual-NIC mainboards. Some are Realtek NICs, which suck. Some are Intel e1000s, which don't.
I've just noticed on 2 machines, one is an ...
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Implications of using VMware's templating and cloning for provisioning Linux servers instead of PXE
There seems to be speed benefits when using VMware's templates to create new VMs. However, I'm concerned about possible less obvious security and flexibility implications. For e.g.:
First boot ...
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Networking doesn't initialize properly when pxebooting Linux Mint (live CD) using cifs, but works with nfs
I have a TFTP/DHCP/NFS/SMB server (Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS) on 192.168.26.1. I use pxelinux to display a menu containing startup and installation options for Windows, an Ubuntu network installer, and ...
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Conditionally offering PXE boot to a client
I am working on a pet project, and I am trying to figure out where I should start with achieving the following functionality:
I have a PXE boot rom that wlil do burn-in tests, my burn in test sets a ...
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Installing Windows on HP Proliant Servers without SmartStart
I have a PXE server for deploying Windows XP and Windows 7 to workstations.
The process is as follows:
Boot the workstation from the NIC.
Workstation sends a DHCP request.
DHCP server responds with ...
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one-time PXE boot from Linux on HP Proliant hardware
So, I use Systemimager to provision new CentOS 5.3 hosts via PXE. We have a couple servers that are just test targets that we'll reimage a couple-dozen times a day, and normally, getting them to PXE-...
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PXE boot FreeBSD iso from pxelinux server
I'm using FOG as a TFTP / PXE server and would like to be able to boot a FreeBSD LiveCD (specifically pfSense, but it could be any LiveCD, really); I've found HOWTOs for booting a "netboot" BSD but ...
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Can't boot Windows Server 2012 from iSCSI
I'm working out how to install various OSes onto diskless servers to be run via iSCSI. The servers have no special hardware for this (no iSCSI HBAs etc.)
I briefly played with Windows Deployment ...
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How do I pass arguments from the PXE command line to a kickstart %pre, %post script?
Basically I want an ARGV like usage on the PXE command line, but I can't see any documentation to do this.
basically I want to pass something like
scientific-linux-6 HOSTNAME VLAN
then in %pre hit ...
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Preseeding debian 11 fully unattended (get rid of questions)
I'm trying to preseed debian 11 netinstall fully automated.
I read many of the documentation here :
Here is my boot line (from a grub.cfg)
set default="autoinstall"
set timeout=3
menuentry &...
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How do I convince Dell blades to PXE Boot
Scenario:
Brand new Dell M610 blades.
Connected to the network with a 10GE uplink into a Dell PowerConnect M6220 blade switch.
DHCP server evidently working, as everything else boots / gets addresses ...
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PXE in an 802.1X environment
My organization is about to implement 802.1X on our enterprise, but we currently use PXE-based OS deployment sequences in SCCM. I'm looking for a way to continue using PXE in an 802.1X environment. ...
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Setting a VM boot CD via PowerCLI
I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be a bug, but I'm definitely willing to entertain the possibility that I'm doing things wrong.
I have a VMware virtual machine in $vm, and I'm trying to ...
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Failing to mount root from ramdisk while PXE boot
I have a working TFTP/DHCP PXE boot environment where I've already booted some images successful. Now I built an CentOS 6.5 diskless image and this one is failing booting with the following error:
No ...
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PXE Boot FreeBSD ISO from a Linux PXE server
I have a working PXE boot server running on CentOS 5.5 that works perfectly for any flavor of Linux. I'm trying to add FreeBSD to the install options as a ISO memdisk, but so far nothing is working ...
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PXE boot with Virtualbox
I have a linux guest and that is my server. I also have created another guest as the client with no disk.
I want to know, which network type and adapter is correct? NAT or Internal Network? AMD or ...
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How to boot ISO image using gpxe and memdisk?
I have a repository of an ISO images (many different OS installers in ISO format) under http://myrepos/*.iso.
I would like to boot from that repo using gPXE (with/without memdisk if necessary) and ...
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How can I pass kernel arguments via PXE to an Ubuntu-like OS installer ISO?
I'm in a tough situation in which I need to perform a remote installation of a QuantaStor (Ubuntu-based - hiss) appliance onto hardware with limited out-of-band access functionality.
The target ...
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Can ISC DHCPD operate as a Proxy DHCP server for PXE boot?
I have an existing LAN with a DHCP server already dishing out IP addresses.
For various reasons I cannot replace that server so it will still need to dish out IP addresses.
I've been experimenting ...
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Use GRUB/GRUB2 to PXE boot OS image
Asked this in stackoverflow but they recommended I post this here:
Here is the situation I am in:
I currently have a Windows drive that boots XP. The BIOS does not support PXE booting so this is out ...
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DHCP Server Not Offering to PXE Client
DHCP Server Not Offering to PXE Client
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I'm in the process of adding PXE services to an existing SCCM 2007 server. The SCCM server is separate from the DHCP server (Server 2008 x86) and ...
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How useful is PXE booting?
How fast is booting over PXE?. Is it conceivable to boot a linux installation? Does it take a long time? I have never really looked into it at all, but I was considering setting up a compiler farm and ...
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Provisioning DELL servers using only linux tools
We have taken delivery of a bunch off Dell Poweredge Rack servers. Unfortunately when ordering it was neglegted to ask for dhcp to be enabled in the built in iDRAC controlers... So they are all stuck ...
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How does a host locate a PXE server?
I'm trying to PXE boot a Cisco UCS C260 M2. For the UCS, or a host in general being booted from PXE, is a PXE server IP specified in the BIOS, or is a PXE server searched for on the same subnet?
The ...
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Automatically deploying Windows Server 2003 and 2008 unattended
We are currently using PXE boots to automate the installations and reinstallations of our dedicated servers. This is working great for all Linux based systems like Debian, CentOS, VMware and Ubuntu in ...
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How does Bare metal provisioning to clients work with PXE
I'm trying to better understand how one would initiate the process of re imaging a number of client computer systems on a network. Eg, to reverse systems back to a base image each week. Each image ...
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Network boot from a non-default NIC on a HP ProLiant G7 server
I need to force a ProLiant DL380 G7 server to PXE boot from a non-default (not Port 1) NIC.
So far I was unsuccessful in finding out how to do this, or if it's even possible.
I will be very grateful ...
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Syslinux: How to correctly configure for UEFI PXE boot?
A variety of machines will happily boot a custom bzImage via PXE in legacy mode using syslinux.
In UEFI mode, one of these machines and a newer UEFI only board get assigned an IP address, TFTP ...
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How to boot a Hyper-V Virtual Machine with a PXE server
I am trying to boot a virtual machine created in Hyper-V Manager. I want to boot from the NIC so that the VM can connect to the PXE server (by pressing F12 numerous times). The thing is, I cannot get ...
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How to automate RAID configuration, BIOS configs during PXE installs
Ok, since this got put on hold, trying to reword it to fit the format better.
Business problem: As part of our automated install process of baremetal machines, we need to do some basic pre-work on ...
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WDS 2012 R2 Server
Background: WDS Server 2012 R2 (runs on a 2012 R2 Hyper-v server), DHCP server runs on a different server in a different physical LAN. Both Lans go into the same Layer3 switch. Currently all my ...
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PXE-E32 TFTP Open Timeout While Attempting to PXE Boot from Windows Deployment Services
I'm running Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of an ESX 4.0 box. This is the only function of this VM instance, although it had previously functioned as an AD Domain ...
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What do you have on your PXE server? [closed]
Basically, what cool utilities does everyone have loaded up on a PXE server ready to use on any computer you netboot from? I've just set one up at home with the following:
Clonezilla
Memtest86
Ubuntu ...
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NFS low performance after some activity
I have a Linux cluster with nodes that have NFS mountpoints from a central server (actually the nodes are diskless and are booted over PXE). After some activity on the NFS mountpoints from the nodes, ...
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Is there a way to force remove an SCCM 2007 Site Server?
One of our secondary site servers in SCCM 2007 has become corrupt. IIS, WSUS and WDS have failed. Unfortunately, in Server 2008 there is no way to repair these server roles. I have cleared the ...
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Linux diskless boot - NFS share not mounting during ramdisk boot
(This is my first post so hopefully I'm formatting it correctly). I've added in as much information as possible without being TL:DR.
My basic issue is that I hit walls when trying to do a PXE ...
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IPv6 only server PXE provisioning
We are currently preparing for IPv6 only network deployment and struggle to find a unique server identification.
In our previous setup, we used mac address as servers primary identification. We were ...
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Separate Servers for TFTP and DHCP for PXE Boot
This seems like it should be simple, but I can't find any actual information: Is it possible to have two separate servers, one running dnsmasq doing DHCP while the TFTP (or HTTP) server is running on ...
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PXE Boot - Linux server & OpenBSD client
I have an old machine here I'm trying to setup as a diskless client running OpenBSD, booting from my fedora 10 machine.
I've setup tftp and dhcp and both appear to be correct, yet the client just ...
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AOE windows Server/Target and Client/Initiator for Windows7/2012 or later [closed]
I've been using iSCSI for virtual SAN implementations...
I've already used in the past a diskless-boot system based on AOE (32 bits)...
In my case AOE has some advantages over iSCSI for small LAN ...
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Can a PXE+DHCP server exist on one network and boot machines on another?
I have a PXE+DHCP server creaed using syslinux and already running on a private network segment (198.19.99.xxx).. I want to know if this PXE+DHCP server can be configured to boot machines over another ...
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'Slow down' A DHCP server on purpose
As the title implies, May look like a silly question, But what i'm trying to do,
Is to have 2 DHCP servers in one network.
One only leases IPs to Bootp clients (And if the client re-requests ...
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Is Imaging over wireless possible and/or feasible? PXE boot over Wireless?
I am looking to implement (if possible/feasible) the ability to image a PC and Mac via our wireless network. Is this actually possible? I have read multiple documents that newer Macbook Airs can do ...
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Multiple PXE server same subnet
I've been struggling with this for some time. I have a few test machines that boot from the network, they receive the boot data from the DHCP server, this tells them who is the boot server where is ...