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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.

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 (like hard disks) or installed operating systems.

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Securely deploying secrets to boxes during provisioning

During a fully automated deployment on physical hardware (using pxeboot / preseed / kickstart to install and configure a minimal system for bootstrapping) we need to deploy certain secrets - such as our Chef validation key, and a secret key for…
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PXE a W7x64 Task Sequence on a Lenovo X250 with SCCM 2012 SP1 & Windows ADK

My purpose is to PXE boot a Windows 7 (x64) Task Sequence on a Lenovo X250 with : SCCM 2012 SP1 Boot Image 4.0 x64 / WinPE 6.2 generated with Windows 8 ADK With these Lenovo drivers for SCCM , I tried several configurations : WinPE Boot Image…
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Is it possible to set a dhcp option 77 value in vsphere as a config parameter so vNIC ROM (e1000/vmxnet3) uses it during PXE?

I'd like to set a dhcp option 77 string value in vsphere as a config parameter on a vm or vm template so that the vNIC ROM (e1000/vmxnet3) uses it during the DHCP part of PXE. My goal is to have PXE booting nodes self identify using a dhcp option 77…
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PXE boot a VMware guest by specifying the IP configuration in the guest's boot options. No DHCP available

I am in a situation where I do not have control over DHCP on a subnet. I have a Satellite server that I want to use to provision VMware guests. The Satellite is on a different subnet and VLAN. Is there a way I can modify the guest's boot options so…
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PXE bootable browser

I would like to have a system that boots using PXE and only runs a single application: A graphical webbrowser with a hardcoded homepage that loads upon opening. I could use the Knoppix Terminal server and strip this thing down to only the…
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Convert PXELINUX to gPXE

I have a current working PXELINUX setup, with menu for different OS version. Recently I tried to add VMware installer to it. It was looking great up to a point where I was not able to load the required files. VMware itself says using TFTP for…
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What URL do I use to PXE boot over http with CentOS 7 dvd?

I have this mount on my nginx server: /home/msh/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso on /usr/share/nginx/www/iso type iso9660 (ro,relatime) so the root of the iso file system is one step in from the nginx document root. So when I load…
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Download kernel+rootfs and boot on it with u-boot

We are working with a few single board computers (SBC). We generate linux embedded images with Yocto (using U-boot as bootloader), and we deploy it manually on SD cards. This works well for now, when we are in test phase and don't have a lot of…
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PXE Troubleshooting for SCCM 2012

I'm not able to PXE boot clients. I get the following error: PXE-E55 ProxyDHCP Service did not reply to request on port 4011 This is a new setup of SCCM 2012 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). SCCM itself seems to be working, I can run OS…
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How to associate a DHCP pool or subnet with declarations for a class

I have the following working configuration for ISC DHCP server 4.1.1, which hands out fixed addresses to registered clients. Some of those clients are configured for PXE booting (for FAI and SCCM). # General declarations authoritative; option…
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Windows Server 2012 R2, iSCSI Target Server 80 diskless clients, hanging failures hangs and whatnot

I have bitten way more than I could chew. Recently purchased a 80 diskless PC Internet/Gaming Cafe. The running system was cracked CCBoot, which at first seemed like caused random hangs, which apparently is not cracked CCBoot's fault, even though…
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PXE-E53 Linux Error: No boot filename received. Can that be a link issue?

When a client computer is trying to boot to PXE, it receives the following error message: PXE-E53: No boot filename received As well probably being an issue somewhat related to the computer which requested a PXE boot menu and did not receive…
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DHCP Option 66 ignored?

Im trying to setup a PXE boot server to deploy CloneZilla images easily, using pxelinux.0. I have a tftp-hpa server running on a server, I tested it with a client and it works fine. We are using a FortiNet router as the DHCP server, so I added that…
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Boot to CD image over network

I have multiple diagnostics CDs that I want to avoid making twenty copies of for the sake of time and convenience. I figured a good way to do this would be to boot an image of the necessary CD over the network. However, most of the information on…
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is it possible to run bootp/pxe server using dnsmasq without act as dhcp server

on my network its already exist a router that do dhcp, boot in this network i need to boot a diskless system that use pxe to boot from network, while the pxe server is using dnsmasq to serve O/S, but currently this dnsmasq act as dhcp server too, so…
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