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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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Searching for ubuntu installation media fails pxeboot

I'm setting up a pxe setup for my cluster. I'm using dnsmasq as the dhcp/tftp server, and try to deploy ubuntu server 14.04.2. I'm using apache2 as http server to serve the preseed and…
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KVM TFTP Boot / WDS

I installed all my Chef Infrastructure, PXE install of my Linux VM's, Preseed/Kickstart, etc. via KVM on my local server (Host OS is Debian 8). Installing a new Linux VM is a piece of cake with that setup. Now i want to start with Windows Systems…
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Client getting wrong option from DHCP server

I'm setting up a machine to load a Debian intallation with PXEBoot, following the guide on the Debian Wiki. I have the boot image sitting on a server, pxe.example.com, at /var/lib/tftpboot/debian-jessie/pxelinux.0. I can download that file manually…
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Is it possible to specify an answer file when PXE booting windows using memdisk?

I'm able to PXE boot windows from my Linux server using memdisk to mount a winpe.iso that: mounts two samba share drives, one for the windows install disk, and another that has answer files (each answer file is in its own directory). Then it…
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PXELinux with WDS/DNS/DHCP

I've been reading up on setting up a PXELinux machine to run side by side with WDS on Windows and all the guides talk about setting up a DNS and DHCP server on the same server as the PXELinux. What I've read is you can run PXELinux and then create a…
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dhcpd.conf for PXE/BOOTP boot not working

I'm trying to configure the dhcpd.conf file so that when I boot through the network using PXE / BOOTP, a bare metal server or a virtual machine (KVM) would get an IP address in the 10.0.2.100 to 10.0.2.253 range. It's currently working for the kvm,…
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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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Diskless node. Unable to mount root fs via NFS

Server: CentOS 7 NFS root filesystem for client and Kernel: Slackware 14.1 I enabled "Root file system on NFS" and "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" with "DHCP,BOOTP,RARP" support, recompiled the Kernel(3.10.17). TFTP,NFS,DHCP all ready. I ensure…
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WDS 2012: UEFI Client PXE Boot ends in BSOD: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

When I try to boot my uefi client from LAN it successfully downloads boot.wim from my WDS 2012, shows the Windows Logo for some seconds, but then it crashes, showing BSOD and the message "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". I'm using the same x64 boot.wim as…
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Setup Windows Deployment Services when option 66 is already in use

I am currently trying to setup WDS at my company. The WDS and DHCP are running on two different servers. However, our IP telephony system is currently using option 66 (Boot Server Host Name) in order for the phones to boot/direct to the Telephony…
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Getting PXE-E78 error when trying to network boot

When imaging a laptop or desktop through our network, I keep getting these errors. The fix I've found is starting Windows up before I throw up our company image and doing a renew/refresh in cmd. Any ideas as to What could be the root of the problem?
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Deploying custom image on PXE client by WDS gives me 0c0000428 error

I create a reference VM, configure and install required programs and do sysprep. I capture an image by WDS (capture image) and upload it on WDS Server. When i try to deploy the image on PXE clients (which is a VM too), it boots WinPE, installs…
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Custom Live Boot PXE ISO Script

Currently I am using an open source PC auditing software called Open-Audit to audit PCs my company receives off lease from school districts. The software uses snmap to pull hardware information over a subnet and saves it on the server. The problem I…
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Cisco Router DHCP Error Logging

I am troubleshooting an issue where a DHCP client is not receiving an address during PXE boot, but receives an address with no issues once booted into Windows. Our Cisco router is also our DHCP server. I'm no IOS expert, so is there any DHCP logging…
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PXE or other : deploy images on single board computers (SBC)

We have a few SBCs of various modeles (but a lot of freescale). When received, these SBCs are bare (no BIOS/U-boot). We generate linux embedded images with Yocto (using U-boot as bootloader), and we deploy it manually on SD cards. This works well…
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