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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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Boot .iso from PXE server via HTTP

I have set up on my FreeBSD 10.3 PXE Boot server, using Syslinux. Boot via TFTP works fine, but via HTTP returns to PXE menu. Getting all files from browser works fine. # cat /usr/tftpdata/pxelinux.cfg/default label mfsbsd menu label ^MfsBSD 10.3…
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How to PXE boot if BIOS does not suppport it

Situation: I have an old rack server that I want to use as a test machine. The BIOS does not support network boot, and cannot be upgraded. I need to install a fresh OS on it. Is there anything I can install (or better, a live CD I can boot from),…
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pxe boot microsoft surface

I'm wondering if anyone has ever attempted this before with a Linux PXE Server? I've got it setup and working for pretty much every other laptop and desktop out there. This is the first time I have attempted this and we have the official Microsoft…
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soekris net6501, PXE, foreman & boot order

I'm trying to provision Ubuntu 16.04 to a soekris net6501 via foreman. The process itself actually now works quite well. One thing that doesn't quite do what we want is the step after provisioning. The idea is to be able to deploy a new image/OS…
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PXE Linux config does not append network parameters to start kickstart installation

I am trying to perform a PXE boot on a server with the following PXE linux configuration located in pxelinux.cfg/default: default cli label cli menu label kickstart-installation kernel ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux append…
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Unable to do a PXE boot, "no filesystem could mount root" error

I'm trying to do a PXE boot with an image I created, but after loading the image and the kernel, I get the following error message: The main error message is this: No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 iso9668 Kernel panic - not…
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PXE boot cannot find syslinux config file, where is it looking?

I am running a PXE server mock up in VMware Workstation. I have the DHCP and TFTP servers working and I can get my to grab an IP address and boot the firmware for their platform. Where I seem to be running into trouble is all clients are failing to…
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Multiple interface Red Hat 6 ISC DHCP Server sending Incorrect PXE next-server

My setup: Red Hat 6.7 isd dhcp server 2x networks connected (A and B) One DHCP pool configured on Network A When I had this server set up on a single network ("A") it worked fine, now that I added a second network ("B") the DHCP server is sending…
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dnsmasq proxy mode and efi boot

So, I already have DHCP server in my local network. But I want to setup new VMs with network boot (PXE). I've setup dnsmasq in proxyDHCP mode to provide PXE info to booting clients while using other DHCP Server for providing IP/MASK. Problem: I was…
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Network Kickstart RHEL 5 vs Kickstart RHEL 6, vmlinuz doesn't support nameservers?

I use PXE + kickstart in conjunction with Foreman, to install new hosts over the network. I've run into a problem while trying to install Red Hat 5. It looks like the older vmlinuz in RH5 does not support the same kernel parameters as the vmlinuz…
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How to make a bunch of blades boot and read from a same image without having to have local disks?

I'm kind of a scientific computing (much focus on fast CPUs for distributing big computations like physics simulations and algorithm optimizations, signal and image and video processing and so on) kind of guy who quite new to working with servers…
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WDS boot image doesnt want to start

I'am using Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2. I Have virtual machine of generation 2. My goal is to boot Windows PE boot image from WDS server using PXE. PXE boot seems OK. WDS starts its bootloader, then I choose boot image from list,…
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PXE Boot error in virtualBox

I've installed WDS on my windows server 2012 correctly and everything is fine, but when I setup a new machine to boot from PXE, it get the error below. Note, The server have been installed on VirtualBox too. The new machine network configuration is…
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How to debug failed Ubuntu 15.04 PXE install on Dell R710?

I've built a PXE install server which installs Ubuntu 15.04 using a Kickstart script and it's working fine on VMWare / Virtual Box VM's. 15 minute install at most. I tried this on Dell R710's yesterday and the initial TFTP boot process isn't an…
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Ubuntu ramdisk template

I've been working on a ramdisk template for running a complete root filesystem on the RAM of a baremetal server(over IPMI so no physical access) that boots over PXE. I used debootstrap to create an ubuntu trusty filesystem and applied some…
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