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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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Clonezilla-SE with another DHCP Server in LAN

I want to install Clonezilla-Server(192.168.1.100) in a network that already have a DHCP Server (dd-wrt with dnsmasq - 192.168.1.1). I've installed Clonezilla-SE on ubuntu Server 10.10, once installed and configured Clonezilla Server i've removed…
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Configuring a DHCP server to serve multiple subnets on the same VLAN

I have a VLAN composed of multiple subnets, and I would like to use DHCP to centralize IP address designation. The DHCP server (100.100.25.88) is a Debian machine on the subnet 100.100.25.64/27. I would like to assign IP addresses to machines in the…
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Adaptec 2420SA RAID 1 rebuild 66% after 1 week

We're running a 500GB RAID 1 on an Adaptec 2420SA - 2x500GB Hitachi Drives. It suddenly crashed and required a rebuild -- was not even booting. It's only at 66% after about a week. Very frustrated. This is the second box with the same card and…
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UEFI boot sequence initially set to PXE first but always reset to local disk first after ESXi installation

I have some Dell PowerEdge R720 servers for testing. To make life easier, the UEFI boot is set to PXE first and in the PXE boot menu it'll default to boot from local disk if there's no input from the user. And in the PXE menu we can also choose to…
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Create iPXE UEFI bootable image for QEMU/Libvirt with custom next-server and filename

I can create a VM with libvirt/qemu to boot in UEFI mode. I know that it does iPXE by default, but I want to create/modify a iPXE image in order to override filename and next-server properties. How can I do such thing? EDIT: I tried the…
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What Determines the Protocol Used During a VMware VM PXE Boot Against a WDS Server?

Good-day folks, I have successfully implemented a Windows Deployment Server in my environment, built both x86 and x64 boot images to support UEFI and Legacy BIOS using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (v8450), and have been able to successfully…
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UEFI Enabled; unable to get IP address from DHCP, WDS

I'm trying to boot PCs from a Windows 2012R2 WDS server in UEFI mode. it works fine BIOS mode, but I want to boot from UEFI mode. I have change the boot setting to UEFI mode; secure boot in BIOS. I am using Dell laptops and when I try to boot from…
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ubuntu-18.04.1 missing install/netboot/

I'm working on setting up PXE boot server and while following some online instructions to mount the ISO and copy over everything under /mnt/install/netboot/, I noticed that a mount of ubuntu-18.04.1.0-live-server-amd64.iso is missing the…
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Install windows updates along with PXE install

Here is the problem. I do testing.. I need windows, not by choice, for testing purposes. I need physical hardware to do my testing. To do this, I install windows from PXE. The problem with this is, that I now need to have all of the windows…
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Using host DHCP server with QEMU user mode (slirp) networking

I am trying to debug my own DHCP server (for PXE), and I want QEMU to net boot from it. For that, it needs to send DHCPDISCOVER packet to 255.255.255.255 that should reach host network where DHCP server is listening (it listens on 0.0.0.0, and get…
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Changing boot order while using ipxe with nova

I am using ipxe to boot a VM with openstack Nova. Here is the answer link i have used to setup my boot process Does nova support pxe boot? I am using the answer by larsks to boot the VM using ipxe. It works well but when i try to reboot a VM it…
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Is there a way to relate the mac address of a machine to it's hostname when deploying images over a network?

This is a os-agnostic question; When deploying to a large number of machines, the only thing you have to differentiate them with is a mac address; DHCP can assign an IP to each machine based on it's mac address, and then DNS will assign it a FQDN…
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Getting Hyper-V PXE boot to "fall through" to the next boot device

I've got an environment where machines on the network all PXE boot as their first boot option. Depending on server configuration, each machine will either PXE boot into a custom task, or will just do an ipxe exit, which causes the machine to proceed…
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iPXE to iSCSI target - missing parameter and naming confusion

I have a pyTarget iSCSI target. I'm able to use iPXE to connect to the target and install Ubuntu. After installation, I can't boot into the image, however. pyTarget config.xml:
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Creating bootable USB thumb drive from PXE boot files

Looked around and Googled but could not find a similar question. It seems most people want to take a bootable USB thumb stick and convert it into a PXE boot image. I actually need to go in the opposite direction, that is, create a bootable USB thumb…
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