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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 avoid "NBP is too big to fit into free base memory" after searching for boot device repeatedly?

I have some servers which can repeatedly retry searching for boot devices (local sata disk, usb stick, netboot) at startup until one is available. I have a netboot setup with iPXE as well. By default it checks for a custom boot script for the…
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Differing TFTP (Ephemeral?) UDP Ports

I have a piece of hardware which I am attempting to PXE boot. Currently, it PXE boots, DHCP leases TCP/IP data to the end-point and then it goes to its "next-server" to TFTP over some iPXE firmware. It gets to the point where it establishes a TFTP…
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Network Boot Windows 10 Black Screen

I am using a Windows Server 2016 machine to host a Tiny PXE Server in order to install Windows 10 from Network Boot into another machine. Both machines are physical and on the same network. Main Machine IP: XXX.YYY.ZZZ.A Secondary Machine IP:…
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pxe boot ubuntu using thunderbolt docking station uses wrong network interface for dhcp

I have a few ThinkPads (x280, x390, etc) connected to thunderbolt docking stations. I also have DHCP and PXE set up to boot an ubuntu image I serve over NFS. The DHCP, PXE and NFS boot setups works when laptops or workstations use their internal…
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TFTP Server working, PXE Boot is not

We have set up a TFTP server in Debian and want to set up a PXE boot server. Currently the problem is that while we can retrieve files using TFTP, the PXE boot agent can not retrieve the file. Successful TFTP transfer: 21:49:09.405200 IP…
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isc-dhcp-server (dhcpd) gives old next-server in DHCP offer

I'm running isc-dhcp-server (dhpcd) version 4.4.1 on ubuntu 20.04 with a subnet configured like so, which has been working just fine. # /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 10.0.1.1; next-server 10.0.1.2; …
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Ubuntu 18.04 Live squash boot with PXE on multiple machines

I have set up a WDS PXE server that is able to install Windows and Linux operating systems in may different ways. The server is also able to live boot Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop squash files (official & my own custom made). Each squash has its own NFS…
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PXE boot Centos 8 fails with "failed initrd-switch-root.service"

I am trying to pxe boot centos 8 as a diskless system however, after the boot fails after loading the kernel and the initrd.img when it tries to hand over control to the root file structure. I get the following error Starting Switch Root... Failed…
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How can I do a full server recovery through PXE?

I have: 8 servers in various Windows Server flavors (2008 R2, 2016, 2019) A Windows Deployment Services (PXE) server setup and functioning well Windows Server Backup on all servers, nightly backups to a NAS OS deployment works great: just boot via…
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Ubuntu Preseed - Netboot installs

I have searched the docs and cannot find any mention of what I am trying to achieve. We have a custom Ubuntu installation that contains scripts, these are called in the preseed config file. We are moving to a PXE environment and I need some advice…
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Wrong grub2 prefix when booting over network

I have dnsmasq in proxy mode, serving pxe service and tftp server using this config: port=0 log-dhcp log-queries log-facility=/var/log/dnsmasq.log dhcp-range=192.168.0.0,proxy enable-tftp tftp-root=/tftp pxe-service=x86-64_EFI,boot,…
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PXE-M0F exiting intel boot agent

I have a VS running Windows Server 2016 Standard hired to hetzner.com. I use this server to run just one single application: Jarvee. What i mean is i don't make any modifications or special setups over the server, just install and run the…
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Remove OS from server and return to PXE boot

I installed Ubuntu 18.04.4 on my HP DL360 G10 servers. When they were initially installed, they were trying to PXE boot from the different network adapters. Now that I've installed an OS on them, they boot directly from the hard disk. I would…
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(WDS) UEFI PXE Boot Fails While Downloading NBP File

Hello guys i'm currently running into an issue where the laptop that i'm trying to network boot with would go download the NBP file over the network but then it would go back to the BIOS menu. I was following this guide in the process. as you can…
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PXE Boot laptop doesn't send out DHCP discover

ultimately im trying to get a PXE boot laptop to talk to the WDS server. While monitoring the switch using wireshark from laptop #2, it doesn't see ANY DHCP packet during a PXE boot. whereas, I would boot the PXE laptop normally to windows and i can…
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