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netbooting CentOS via PXE and UEFI : unable to mount root over nfs -- failed to switch root path /sysroot

Last weekend, I went down the rabbit hole of trying to netboot rockylinux on raspberry pi 4. I was able make it work as far as being able to boot the kernel. But I fail to properly nfs mount root. I get the error: Failed to switch root path …
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Debian netboot via PXE required files

I'm trying to perform a netboot to install Debian on a spare PC I have. I'm using a Windows XP Pro box as the "server". It has a TFTP/DHCP server set up and running on it, but the information on which specific files to put into the root folder of…
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Booting a Debian Live ISO on QEMU

Situation: A server: access only via SSH (no physical access, no KVM) a netboot OS (Debian/Jessie) 3 x 2T HDD 16G RAM Final goal: Building a ZFS pool with the local HDD and install Debian on a ZFS root, the netboot OS is missing packages to…
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Is it possible to reboot server from /dev/sdb while RAID 1 rebuilds /dev/sda?

I have a dedicated server with a Raid I with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in which /dev/sda started to fail so I ordered its replacement. After the intervention the server went into rescue mode and I was not given any info from support so I've been trying…
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Setting boot sequence on windows

I want to try something similar to what Mac has i.e control the startup from the OS. In Mac you can choose to have the next boot to be a network boot or a CD boot or a Firewire boot. Similarly, is there a way in windows using WMI/wbem scripting we…
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Create a network bootable image from current linux installation

I currently have a linux installation on a usb drive. I would like to take that installation and convert it to an image that can then be transfered to a machine configured to be a network boot server and allow a lab full of computer to boot from…
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Using 2 redundant Servers to Netboot Devices over network

Is it possible, and how would you go about doing the following. I have 2 Servers ( 1 is primary and other acting as backup) and many devices connected to these servers. I would like to set up Netbooting ( perhaps using PXE,DHCP or other…
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Linux clustering

I'm about to run my own simple cluster. I want my nodes runs the operating system off the network (netboot) since they don't have any hard-drive to store the operating system. (Btw, my interest is Ubuntu). I have seted up a perfect DHCP server -…
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Booting WDS Capture image on VM Gen2

Have problem booting capture image, created by Microsoft WDS management console. I have functional boot image (boot.wim) taken from WinServer 2012 R2 iso. This image works fine on Hyper-V Gen2 VM. But when I create capture image from working image,…
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Booting hypervisor and network stacks using PXE Server

I am trying configure server using PXE boot. I successfully installed ESXi hypervisor using PXE and would like to know if there is a way by which I can specify Virtual machines at the time of PXE boot. So effectively when user will select hypervisor…
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Network install OS and a few packages on 10 systems

This is something that I am currently working on. I have 10 systems, that I would like to configure with lubuntu and virtual box. Now, I know about network installation with PXE. I tried to do this with Serva configured on another windows system.…
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Cannot start WDS installation in default language with 2012 R2 boot image

I've a WDS server running Windows 2012 Server and I just uploaded Windows 2012 R2 images to the WDS server. Changed the boot.wim image to the one in the 2012 R2 ISO, but after this change, I was unable to select, for example, English (US) as default…
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Boot two servers off same disk?

I was reading an article on Linux Journal about Memcached and it mentions Netbooting multiple servers off a single root image: LiveJournal's Web nodes are all diskless, Netbooting off a common yet redundant NFS root image. Not only is this cheaper,…
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Netboot Intel Macs without BSDP

I have a netboot setup with DeployStudio that works great in my lab, but doesn't work on our main network. After some digging, I believe it's because our network admins are filtering BSDP (Boot Service Discovery Protocol) on our subnet at the…
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Remote Installing Linux or a Hard Drive Image from a Windows Server?

I have a Server running Windows 2008 R2 Standard. I would like to be able to quickly add and remove new machines from the network, which should boot off their NIC and fetch the OS from the server. I know that for Windows Clients I can use Windows…
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