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Use iPXE when mentioning the more feature rich iPXE pxe-boot environment.

iPXE is an extended PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) network boot program (NBP) with support for scripting, HTTP and many other features.

Often, but not always, chained from PXE-BOOT or EFI to get these more advanced features or better performance with it's native NIC drivers.

Also used as a firmware or boot rom. Many emulators, such as Qemu does use iPXE to provide network boot environment.

More information on ipxe.org or Wikipedia

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Client boot default from WDS server not iPXE

The background information: iPXE/DHCP Server: 192.168.0.5 Centos 7.9 WDS Server: 192.168.0.2 Windows 10 I instaled iPXE/ISC DHCP server in 192.168.0.5 and it works,also installed WDS Server in Windows 10, the issue is when I tryied install a new…
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Tell Linux/GRUB to start iPXE on next boot?

I've just discovered the wonder that is iPXE. Im running various versions of Debian on many different computers, and would like to remotely tell them to reboot into iPXE, and have iPXE automatically boot into a clonezilla auto-deploy .iso I have. Is…
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LibVirt: PXE-boot over HTTPS?

The title summarizes it all. I have a VM solution that involves LibVirt, QEmu, and KVM. PXE-boot over HTTP works, but doesn't work on HTTPS. There are no firewall problems, I've checked that already. Everything is CentOS Linux. Any ideas how to…
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Define multiple filename options in DHCP config based on different range

Intro I am trying to use a centos box for DHCP and TFTP function, for iPXE boot. I have one subnet configured for DHCP, but it has multiple ranges and each range has a different iPXE boot URL. Problem Problem is that once the hosts boot into iPXE,…
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UEFI-based laptops not displaying the iPXE boot menu

UEFI-based laptops not displaying the iPXE boot menu I'm testing iPXE to replace the old PXE solution. For my test environment, I'm using CentOS 8 with iPXE, Dnsmasq and Apache installed from the repository. Dnsmasq is configured as a dhcpProxy…
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How to avoid "NBP is too big to fit into free base memory" after searching for boot device repeatedly?

I have some servers which can repeatedly retry searching for boot devices (local sata disk, usb stick, netboot) at startup until one is available. I have a netboot setup with iPXE as well. By default it checks for a custom boot script for the…
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