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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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PXE boot fails to get IP address via DHCP, but DHCP works when OS booted

I'm trying to PXE-boot a Cisco UCS C240 server to install a new OS over the network, but it isn't picking up an IP address via DHCP during boot. I get the "No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received" error from the Intel Boot Agent. A tcpdump on the…
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Second NIC "not working properly" on diskless Server 2012

I've got (after a considerable fight) a diskless Server 2012 running via the MS software iSCSI initiator being booted via gPXE chained from the NIC's PXE. However, now that it is booting properly I have another problem (iSCSI HBAs are getting more…
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Does nova support pxe boot?

I'm working on an OpenStack-based project. Now we need a virtual machine to boot from PXE. I cannot find any document about that. Does nova support PXE boot? If yes, how do I create a KVM image that equivalent is equivalent to a naked machine that…
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Client see Windows Deployment Services but still get "selected boot device failed" error

Like the title says I can't Windows Deployment Services working. The client laptop has an ethernet IP address of 10.0.4.94. On the secondary DHCP server I've set option 60 to PXEClient, option 66 to the IP address of the WDS Server and option 67 to…
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PXE boot Windows 7 repair disc from Linux server

I have a Linux PXE server used to boot Clonezilla, Debian rescue, etc. on client machines when needed. Is it possible to add the Windows 7 recovery CD (repair disc) to the available systems on this Linux PXE server? I do NOT need to install Win7…
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How to install an Ubuntu 12.04 server VM with virt-install without graphics locally (preferably from an ISO)?

I've seen similar questions here but they don't seem to answer the question, instead deferring to graphical installs or PXE-based installs (and with little detail on the latter for my use case). I want to create a VM in Ubuntu 12.04 with the Ubuntu…
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PXE booting LACP hosts on Force10 S50N with FTOS

Hardware: S50N Firmware: FTOS 8.4.2.6 Problem: We're trying to PXE boot some servers that are connected via port-channel interfaces with LACP. Current Work-around: we PXE boot a server with a single interface (eth0), and then use a Perl script to…
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Is there a match on incoming interface in DHCPd classes?

(Note, the title of the question Is there a way to classify DHCP requests based on the interface they're coming from? is what I want answered, but it doesn't actually ask that question for a non-dhcp relay situation, and the answer doesn't help here…
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OS X bootpd as dhcp server not giving out ip addresses

I'm experimenting with PXE lan-boot on my Mac OS 10.6; After some prolonged trouble shooting, I've gotten to the point where LaunchD is nicely running bootpd with the following options:
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PXE Boot PCLinuxOS ISO

I'm in the process of trying to convert some computers at my local school to be diskless browser stations. We've identified PCLinuxOS as the OS we'd like to use due to it's easy interface for creating custom ISO images (we need WINE and some custom…
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Host a PXE or network boot image on Windows 7 LAN?

I've never booted with PXE or network share, but now need to reinstall an OS on my laptop with a dead DVD drive and no budget to replace it. Looking for a free product to host the boot image on Windows 7, then connect to it via PXE or Network Share.…
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how to install a CentOS 6.0 KVM guest on a CentOS 6.0 host server with virt-install and PXE

The host server (running CentOS 6.0) only has one public IP address and will be hosting many KVM guests so it needs to use a virtual network switch configuration in NAT mode. I have previously used pxelinux for automated installation of physical…
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Install CentOS 5.6 with Cobbler

I imported centos 5.6 into cobbler and set up all the pxe boot stuff. When I netboot it starts the install, but asks me "What type of media contains the packages to be installed". I'm given a choice of CDROM,HTTP,NFS,etc. I want to install from…
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Best way to do DHCPD event logging?

I'm thinking about building an (experimental) system that depends on realtime information from a 'standard' ISC DHCP server on a Linux box. I want to log (and process) events that are related to PXE clients trying to get address and boot…
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Unbricking a rack-mount server...VGA out is unresponsive, no network boot activity

I have an old rack-mount (4u) server which booted from the network (with PXE) when it was in use. I was aiming to install debian or wot not on the hard drives (it has 5), so I tried wireshark and a DHCP server on another box. The server sent out…
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