similar to: Loading Xen with PXELinux

Hi All, Now that we have multiboot capable pxelinux, thanks to mboot.c32, I decided to try and remove pxegrub from my x86 jumpstart infrastructure since, in theory, pxelinux can now do it all. The problem I'm having is I'm not very sure I'm following Tim's documentation correctly... I'm not 100% what comes after the --- and whether the Sun kernel needs it's arguments

Hello i'm working on a netboot environement with a highly configurable menu system. for some parts i like to use pxelinux for others pxegrub. I can load both seperatly. Now what i want is to have the possibility to switch from une to another. I tried: to load pxelinux from pxegrub: menu.lst: title pxelinux root (nd) kernel (nd)/pxelinux.0 title pxelinux2 root (nd) kernel

Hi All: I found this old message on the web archives. I've gotten Xen working with PXELinux, albeit with something of a hack. The basic chain is: 1. pxelinux 2. memdisk 3. FAT16 floppy image 4. grub installed on floppy image 5. xen.gz and vmlinuz on floppy image While this seems pretty simple, the key bits were to use: 1. FAT16 (not ext2, etc) for the floppy image 2. use the 'raw'

Greetings: [ First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I looked through about the last year's worth of archives, but couldn't find a "Search feature", so I used the visual grep method, which is not foolproof. I also tried to download the full text of the archives to use the real grep, but I got an error loading it... ] I'm working on setting up the Xen virtual

Hi Aaron, i know it is not an interactive menu - but in my 'config' file i call for a textfile to be displayed : DISPLAY menu.txt that contains all my labels. See the first part of my 'config' : label 0 LOCALBOOT 0 label 1 KERNEL memdisk/memdisk APPEND initrd=images/w2k/unatt.ima label 2 KERNEL memdisk/memdisk APPEND

sorry - i must have overlooked the part where you mentioned that.. my fault. What software are you looking at ? Altiris maybe ? I am, ofcourse interested in the option you are looking for. Please keep this list updated. Best regards, Rijk -----Original Message----- From: Aaron McSorley [mailto:aaron.mcsorley at amd.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:56 PM To: rbitter at cntnl.jnj.com Cc:

Hello all, I understand that during PXE boot, it goes into the pxelinux.cfg and it states: 1. "it will search for the config file using its own IP address in upper case hexadecimal, e.g. 192.0.2.91 -> C000025B (you can use the included progam "gethostip" to compute the hexadecimal IP address for any host.) If that file is not found, it will remove one hex digit and try

I seem to be having trouble getting the NFS root filesystem to mount after the kernel boots. As per thread from 2002 16 January (http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-January/000028.html), I double checked my DHCP config files, but to no avail. It cannot seem to attach to the mountd port on the bootserver. Here is some output from the kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Intel(R) PRO/1000

Hello, I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a virtual machine using Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to experiment with the menu options of pxelinux and this is my pxelinux.cfg/default file. # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200 default menu.c32 prompt 0 default fai-generated timeout 300 #ONTIMEOUT local MENU TITLE PXE Menu LABEL fai-generated

Hi everyone, I got the error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux NET4.0 ds: no socket drivers loaded request_module[block-major-8]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device ""or 08:03 Please append a correct "root"boot option The strange thing is that it tries to mount from harddisk. This I got somewhere else: "the kernel looks like it is trying to

I'm having some difficulties pxe booting Solaris. So far I have tried the mboot.c32, and the pxegrub shipped with Solaris. At first I had some problems with blksize, but this disapeared when I changed from atftpd to tftpd-hpa. The point at which I'm stuck now is, the kernel and x86.microroot/x86.miniroot is loaded but then VMWare crashes. I might try with real hardware, but I thought

What is the difference between PXELINUX and bpbatch ? AFAICT, bpbatch doe not require a TFTP server which supports the 'tsize' option. So in the absence of such a server, I may need to explore bpbatch... It seems that bpbatch can be used to remotely boot DOS. Can PXELINUX also do this? -- John

I have an image of a dos floppy that loads the undi driver from 3com and mounts an smb share. This works great with pxelinux(from syslinux) and memdisk I need to make it work with pxegrub so we can use menus. (or figure out a menu system for pxelinux) With pxegrub I use memdisk as the kernel and load the dos image as a ramdisk. The undi driver loads and doesn't complain but, the network is

I'm trying to boot RedHat 9.0 on a diskless PC from a head machine running Redhat 9.0. The network appears to be setup correctly. I can boot the installation disk image fine using pxelinux. What I am trying to setup is a number of different Linux systems each with its own root directory on the head machine. I am hoping that I don't have to modify the kernel for any of these systems.

> /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/default > --- > DEFAULT /gentoo-x86_64/boot/kernel-3.14.14-gentoo > APPEND ip=dhcp ro rootfstype=nfs root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=10.0.0.11:/diskless/gentoo-x86_64 > init=/linuxrc That pxelinux.cfg/default seems "tolerable" for older versions, but not for Syslinux 5+. Is this an inadequate copy of the actual content? Or is it really a

Hi all, A number of people have posted to the Xen lists recently wanting to network-boot Xen on machines whose NICs are not supported by GRUB. I''ve been writing a module for PXELINUX that will allow it to boot Xen directly over the network on PXE-enabled machines, without relying on any hacks (mbootpack, &c.), or needing to write/port any device drivers. I have a version of it

I've been having some real issues creating a working configuration file for my PXE Linux 2.03 installation from which I intend to boot diskless workstations. I've tried a huge number of differences for passing the init argument but none seem to work. Current config file should look something like this: ******** default std label std kernel linuz append root=/dev/nfs

Hello all, I would like to seek advise on the following; I have configured linux NFSroot images for a bunch of servers and am able to boot and run stuff happily; one nuance that bothers me is that, for instance, my Fedora6 (x64) (kernel 2.6.22), (and noticed also in some other distros - Fedora8, Ubuntu710), the client boots but DOES NOT seem to pick up the hostname I pass it through the DCHP

Hello, I am experimenting with pxelinux. My setup is currently working. My network card receives IP address from DHCP server, and then it downloads pxelinux.0 and executes it. PXElinux loads its config file ('pxelinux.cfg/default') and is able to download vmlinuz and initrd.gz from TFTP server, and execute vmlinuz. Now the question: is there any way to pass server's IP address as a

Hello H. Peter, we use pxelinux to start linux on desktop pcs. Now we have a problem with the interaction of dhcp. If the ip address is not fix, we cannot use the ip address as name for the configfile. A better solution would be, first to check for the mac and then for the ip address. Is it possible? TIA, Tobias