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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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How to use cloud config in pxe boot?

I am using netbootxyz in order to boot my Ubuntu environments. In matter of the facts, is that I am using pre-seed configuration. The problem is that there are some minor bugs: gnome-terminal is not working. can not use post commands at all. Could…
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Wipe linux system remotely to make it unbootable

How would you remotely wipe a linux system so that on the next boot it will not attempt to boot from the hard drive, instead it will prefer booting from the network? Reasoning I am setting up an environment where servers will pxe boot. I have one…
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Centos7 PXE Network Install with Kickstart Script - How to copy across folders / files from network during install?

I have a PXE server for network installations (configured similar to, e.g. https://www.linuxtechi.com/configure-pxe-installation-server-centos-7/) and am using a Kickstart script to automatically implement many settings. The CentOS image is stored…
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PXE kickstart install of CentOS 8 wants files that don't exist on DVD

I'm trying to use the CentOS-8-x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso as the http source for my PXE/kickstart install. I'm struggling to understand why the installer is looking of squashfs.img and a directory named LiveOS, neither of which exist in the above iso…
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How can I check my PXE-server configuration

Is it possible to check the things the dhcp-server delivers? When I configure my dhcp-server I tell it what file to boot from, ex: pxelinux.0, and where it should find it, ex: 192.168.0.112. Could I verify that this is whats delivered from the…
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Force client to send DHCP options to next-server

We currently have clients connecting to a DHCP server when asking for an IP. We then redirect to next-server with some additional options. The next server has a DNSMASQ running that should be able to get all sent options by the DHCP server. With…
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How to verbose log dhcp messages with options values

I am trying to configure dhcp PXE server, but client is not booting as expected. Is there a way how you can watch transferred requested and responded options between client and server? I want to be able to see each individual option value.
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How to setup a cascading PXE server?

I am trying to setup a PXE server for two Debian releases (stretch and buster) using their respective network boot images (netboot.tar.gz), which I extracted into subdirectories of the TFTP server's root directory: ├── debian │ ├── buster │ │ …
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SCCM PXE reboots after loading drivers - VM has IP address but cant ping gateway

The background I'm trying to deploy a desktop image using an SCCM task sequence and PXE. The PXE server is a Server 2016 Hyper-V VM. It has the SCCM Site Server and DP roles installed. It's a remote branch server connected to the primary site…
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dnsmasq pxe boot not working

Maybe someone can point me into the right direction here I have a dnsmasq DHCP Server in a separate Subnet (10.17.131.42) and another Network that has NO local DHCP Server (10.33.0.0/16) The Switch in this Network forwards the DHCP requests properly…
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Netboot from common nfs share. How to incorporate small differences (e.g. in /etc)?

I have a set of (Ubuntu 16.04) servers, which are diskless and boot from a common nfs share. The share is read only and I use a tmpfs overlay. To achieve that I set the /etc/overlayroot.local.conf…
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Is it safe to have multiple clients share a NFS root on a pxe booted Linux

I have boot server that serves with PXE boot and rootdisk via NFS, the image will mount /run /var/log and /tmp as tmpfs and root / is mounted via NFS from the boot server. Is it safe if I have multiple clients, that boot using the same image, and…
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What's the equivalence of pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.cfg/default configration for UEFI?

I use Pxe to servers with BIOS(legacy mode), which works perfectly. Set Legacy mode and boot servers from PXE, it would load pxelinux.0 and read config menus via TFTP from /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. Here is tcpdump for legacy one …
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Chainloading to WDS from iPXE with UEFI

I am in the process of configuring our WDS server to support booting multiple OS's over the network. We have this setup and working using PXELinux for BIOS systems but need to support UEFI systems going forward. I have iPXE loading and displaying a…
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Initramfs corrupted while PXE on Rocks node installation

I have a brand new install of Rocks Cluster OS 7.0 (based on CentOS) and I'm trying to test-install a few nodes. Everything in the system seems fine, but when I try to install a new node with insert-ethers I get this error on the node (it only shows…
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