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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 deal with race condition on Network Boot

I have a remote container filled with many PXE booted computers connected to an on site tftp/dhcp server. If there is a power outage, the server machine takes ages to boot and the PXE booted machines will time out and jump back into bios and never…
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coreos terraform/matchbox doesn't fully install

I am following this tutorial matchbox-with-terraform which has an end goal of running the simple-install example which stands up a coreos machine and copies an ssh key over after. I watch it load the coreos container, please see the screen…
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trying to netboot Linux using PXELinux 6.03 in a EUFI 64 board, tftp too slow

I am trying to set up a kids-school lab, using x5-Z8350 based mini PCs: https://ark.intel.com/products/93361/Intel-Atom-x5-Z8350-Processor-2M-Cache-up-to-1_92-GHz Mine seems to have an AMI 64 UEFI "bios". I have managed to offer IP from Ubuntu…
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When configuring dnsmasq for PXE booting, why do I need to change undionly.kpxe to undionly.0?

I have configured dnsmasq to PXE boot iPXE clients by referring them to a HTTP server (matchbox in this case). I have also configured it to deal with older PXE clients by placing a copy of iPXE in the root of my TFTP server to allow these older…
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PXE booting EFI Livecd - CentOS

I've got a legacy PXE server that does everything we need at my company, and entries that boot to a (custom) CentOS 7 livecd, again, in legacy PXE. I'd like to get these things working under EFI PXE. So far, depending on what .efi file I specify in…
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Change SCCM 2012 PXE Boot.wim to a new Boot.wim

I have created a new boot.wim file for our SCCM 2012 install. We currently use PXE to image machines so I would like to make the new boot.wim the new PXE image. I have imported the boot.wim into SCCM and marked it for use with PXE. I have also…
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Private PXE boot network with KVM

I'm setting up a group of KVM guests on a corporate network that provides DHCP and DNS services. The KVM guests will be assigned static IPs by corp DNS. The guests need to be accessible from the corp network, and need to access the corp network…
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SCCM 2012 PXE issue

We've had an issue that has persisted for about 10 days now, which has gone unnoticed by myself because we haven't imaged a whole lot of PCs lately. Essentially, we get the "E53 - No boot filename received" error when trying to boot clients.…
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PXE boot failing with E11 (ARP timeout) on upgraded Linux server

I just physically replaced a VERY old (2005) IBMThinkCentre NIS/DNS/DHCP/Gateway server running Fedora Core 4 with a slightly less old SUN server running CentOS 6. The newer server has the same IP address as the old one and the Gateway/NIS/DNS…
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pxe-e32 open timeout error

I'm trying to boot CoreOS on hp dl360 bare metal server. I've configured my PXE server similar to this link. Besides, My DHCP server is running on Cisco switch and I set next-server option to my PXE server, but I get "PXE-E32 open timeout" error on…
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Configuring multiple boot images on WDS

For my WDS server I installed Windows XP to Windows 10. Including all the server variations as well. Each disk comes with a boot.wim file. Is there any reason I need to load all these boot.wim files in to WDS or can I just use one Windows boot.wim…
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PXE boot with grub: root variable unset

I configured a dhcp and tftp server, for my tests, I used at first time, syslinux to boot over PXE network successfully. Now I want to use grub instead of syslinux to boot, in order to do that, I issued the command grub-mknetdir…
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pxelinux.0 doesnt try to load ldlinux.c32

I've been setting up a PXE Server to automate Linux deployments. Everything was working fun until something magically broke (i.e. I must have changed something, but cannot for the life of me figure out what it was). snippet of dhcpd.conf (some…
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Windows 2016 Preview 5 as an iSCSI target for TinyPXE iSCSI+iPXE diskless boot

I'm testing Windows 2016 Preview 5 as an iSCSI target and using TinyPXE as a DHCP+iPXE server for diskless boot... Access to Windows 2016 iSCSI target Works OK from a iSCSI initiator like Windows 7 or Windows 10... I'm trying to boot from a iSCSI…
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Validating DHCP Rebroadcast by Router?

I have a datacenter network in which I need to test DHCP across subnets. I have a smart switch which is configured to rebroadcast DHCP requests in any subnet to the broadcast address in my admin network, 10.1.0.255. As nothing is yet managed by…
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