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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 PXE Boot VM on VMware Workstation without using a TFTP server?

I'm trying to PXE boot a vm made by VMware Workstation on my local machine. On a separate subnet I have the PXE server and DHCP server. I do not want to use a TFTP server or use IP Helpers. When I boot the vm it receives an IP address from the DHCP…
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How to automatically install different operating systems based on server specifics?

I have a lab of servers that need to be rebuilt frequently. I currently have a PXE server on a special vlan that can automatically install a single OS without human interaction. How would I expand this to allow specific servers to get a specific OS…
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Problems with WDS on different subnets

I'm setting up a WDS (Windows Deployment Service), the WDS server is in a different subnet than the clients that need PXE. These subnets are connected through a VPN tunnel. Routers are pfsense. But on the clients' router, I don't know what settings…
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How to share ISO files over PXE without mounting?

I have setup a PXE server with a local HTTPD server to host the ISO files the config looks like vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pxeboot.conf Alias /centos-st8 /var/pxe/centos-st8 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # access…
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Command to reboot headless Ubuntu Server 20.04 and boot from pxe or USB once?

Is it possible to issue a reboot command in Ubuntu Server that triggers boot from USB or PXE after reboot? Basically it's a headless system and I would like to run a backup tool without having to hookup a screen/keyboard to it. When the backup tool…
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Create a /tmp partition that uses filesystem type of tmpfs in kickstart?

I'm writing a kickstart script to use when PXE booting to automatically configure new systems with basic settings. I've got everything working except for the partitioning of the boot drive: my /tmp directory is under my / (root) partition instead of…
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How to troubleshoot tftp issues with some (but not all) clients

I have a working PXE server using Puppet Razor (now end of lifed, but we still need it to work a little longer). It has built hundreds of systems for us. I can go to most systems here and manually tftp files from that server and get files whose…
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LibVirt: PXE-boot over HTTPS?

The title summarizes it all. I have a VM solution that involves LibVirt, QEmu, and KVM. PXE-boot over HTTP works, but doesn't work on HTTPS. There are no firewall problems, I've checked that already. Everything is CentOS Linux. Any ideas how to…
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PXE boot pmagic with wget or TFTP after kernel

I wish to boot parted magic by PXE. I have read this article on the topic: https://partedmagic.com/pxe/ where it states that you can either load the entire iso, prepare the squashfs file and load it as ramdisk or you can load a kernel and then…
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ESXi installation PXE boot with GRUB on BIOS (not EFI)

all documents mention syslinux/pxelinux as a way to pxeboot ESXi installation, but I'd like to stay with GRUB 2. How to do that? I'm able, of course, to load GRUB 2 via network (i386-pc/core.0 for non-UEFI host) but then I can't figure out what…
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Ubuntu install with pxe boot (UEFI)

Do I need to create a special configuration to install an ubuntu server with uefi over network pxe boot? I have on my boot server the default pxelinux.0 file. After installation of a new hardware i have checked the filesystem /sys/firmware/efi/vars/…
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Define multiple filename options in DHCP config based on different range

Intro I am trying to use a centos box for DHCP and TFTP function, for iPXE boot. I have one subnet configured for DHCP, but it has multiple ranges and each range has a different iPXE boot URL. Problem Problem is that once the hosts boot into iPXE,…
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stuck at PXE boot dracut command (PXELINUX DEFAULT) on Virtual Box

My Setup: Virtual Box Version 6.1.22 r144080 (Qt5.6.2) Windows Version: 10 Running Two VM's : 1 VM : Centos 7 hosting DNS, TFTP, DHCP, HTTPD with two network card --> 1 card Host-only Adapter without DHCP / 2 card bridge adapter 2 VM : Booting with…
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HPE Proliant Gen10 Stack Fault Exception during PXE boot with UEFI

I am trying to pxe boot a HPE Proliant Gen10 using UEFI BIOS with RHEL (have tried both 7 and 8) and am getting a stack fault exception after the server receives the first boot file (shimx64.efi): HPE ProLiant System BIOS U32 v2.42 (01/23/2021) (C)…
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UEFI-based laptops not displaying the iPXE boot menu

UEFI-based laptops not displaying the iPXE boot menu I'm testing iPXE to replace the old PXE solution. For my test environment, I'm using CentOS 8 with iPXE, Dnsmasq and Apache installed from the repository. Dnsmasq is configured as a dhcpProxy…
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