similar to: Debugging gPXE -> PXELinux -> LTSP

Hi All, Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've managed to get pxelinux to load gpxe and then manually load linux by using the gpxe command line and HTTP for the kernel and initial ram disk. My question is whether it is possible to somehow pass gpxe commands through some mechanism other than the DHCP filename response. Since I don't have control over our DHCP infrastructure, but do

Hi, I've been using pxe-enabled nic's with an lzpxe-etherboot image generated by rom-o-matic.net to boot a ltsp.org kernel, with dhcp 3 to use if statements to determine which filename option he gives to the pxe/etherboot dhcp client.Explained at http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html This works perfectly, except for the fact that you can't use 1 etherboot pxe image for

Hello everyone I am experiencing problems with PXELinux/gPXE when netbooting using HTTP. The problems I encounter: - When the intel bootROM is sending out a DHCPDISCOVER it might not recieve an IP address, but the server did send out a OFFER. Capturing packets reveals the packets have been sent, and the client _should_ have recieved it. But when it passes that stage: - When the gPXE bootROM is

Hey, It is some real awesome work you are doing. Thanks. I have been trying to use gpxe - pxelinux to boot Linux from a remote location. It works with pxelinux 2.02 and lower. However pxelinux 2.03 and higher return errors and booting is incomplete. Why? syslinux-3.00 gives the following dump and hence the system does not boot. Loading Linux...........................................Ready.

Hi, I have a working PXE environment that chainloads gPXE and loads pxelinux.0 afterwards. As I'm also interested in doing san boot (in my case aoe) I tried loading the new gpxelinux.0 file instead of my gPXE --> pxelinux.0 setup (works) and booting from my aoe target by adding this to the default config file: LABEL doaoe MENU LABEL Continue AoE kernel sanboot.c32 append

Randy McAnally wrote: > > Thank you so much, this is the kind of news I needed! > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "Arends, R.R." <r.r.arends at hro.nl> > To: "Randy McAnally" <rsm at fast-serv.com> > Cc: <gpxe at etherboot.org> > Sent: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:10:56 +0100 > Subject: Re: [gPXE] localboot 0 hang on some

Hi All, I've been trying to understand how to use pxechn.c32 to chain a local pxelinux menu item to a remote server which has it's own pxelinux hierarchy served via TFTP and HTTP. We have no control over DHCP next-server and filename fields so I wanted to exploit the "prefix" -p option that pxechn.c32 accepts. I spent a long time hitting my head against a brick wall until I

I am attempting to setup a test gpxe(linux.0) http site, to test among other things the recent dynamic option 252 solution. In the process of investigation I stumbled across http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/authmenus which indicates the gpxe can launch vesamenu.c32 directly. Various other pages on etherboot's site indicate menu.c32/vesamenu.c32 can be used independently as well.

This is worth forwarding to SYSLINUX. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com> wrote: > For some reason I cannot local boot (the default) from any software RAID > system (where the boot partition is linux raid). ?It hangs at "Booting from > local disk..." but never exits the pxe rom and just sits there requiring a reboot. Which RAID level are

Hello, This is my first post. Please forgive me if I am not posting this in the right location. I work at a college where we clone staff computer every now and then. We have an internal network in our office. There is a Linux NAT, DHCP, PXE server in our office separating the two networks. Internally, we PXE with images that boot into Ghost to clone computers. We do not have access to the

Hey *, When using gPXE as a second stage loader, the computer will complete this procedure: POST/BIOS, PXE (DHCP+TFTP) -> Download gPXE ROM, Execute ROM, Do a second DHCP request, Download images with HTTP, I was wondering if PXELinux/gPXE can give the gPXE-ROM some parameters like a static IP based on the IP they got the first time, so it does not have to do the second DHCP request. I am

The gPXE in the Syslinux tree is ridiculously old. We could either replace it with iPXE or just drop it, giving people a recipe for how to integrate with iPXE themselves. What do people think? -hpa

I'm using gpxe to chain to pxelinux on a different host than gpxe was loaded from. The chain command looks like this chain tftp://other-host/pxelinux.0 Unfortunately, pxelinux is ignoring other-host and going back to the original host to look for its files. Is there any way to alter this behavior? Thanks, Mike

Hi , Thought I would keep the same topic as a previous post in June - still is a problem with pre49 Setting dhcp options 209 and 210 is breaking gpxe/pxelinux - everything else being the same, it works fine in 3.86 and not 4.00. ..Inserting following into pxelinux.gpxe ... set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default set 210:string http://xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.uk/pxe/ It is hanging with 'Trying to

I have an interesting situation where I am loading gpxelinux.0 v3.72 from pxelinux.0 ( older ). I have a stanza that I use after loading gpxelinux such as : --- label pxelinux.new kernel pxelinux.new.0 label recovery.http kernel http://kickstart/pxelinux.new/vmlinuz-ramdisk append initrd=http://kickstart/pxelinux.new/ramdisk.img.gz ramdisk_size=358400 ramdisk_blocksize=1024

Hi, As requested on IRC, here are the step-by-step instructions to reproduce the failure I see: On http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php: output format: .dsk NIC type: e1000_82540 x CONSOLE_PCBIOS x CONSOLE_SERIAL BANNER_TIMEOUT: 20 COMCONSOLE: 0x3F8 _ COMPRESERVE COMSPEED: 57600 COMDATA: 8 COMPARITY: 0 COMSTOP: 1 x DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP x DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTP _

I have been looking at the etherboot site and at the syslinux/pxelinx sites trying to figure out how to use gpxe, and I am a bit confused. :) In a nutshell, I simply want to use http to grab the config and messages files. (I need those files to be dynamic.) I tried just replacing pxelinux.o with gpxelinux.0. But, gpxe complains (A LOT) about unrecognized commands. I can't find a simple

Good morning everybody, I'm pretty new to syslinux & tftp-hpa, and so I'm not quite sure where my question belongs to, but I'll try it here first. I want to enhance the network services by offering a LTSP (just for the case the pc or laptop doesn't work for some reasons). And so, for testing, I added a second linux-based system (lets call it system-b). Currently the tftpd

Dear Sir, I am using PXES for booting diskless computer to win2k, and/or LTSP servers. The problem is we have many computers in our lab have different computers, so i require different .initrd files for each group of computers. Can i have different /pxelinux.cfg/default files so that i can define different locations for my boot files. Thanks in advance. Limesh Parekh, Enjay Computer

You're all back! (yippie!). Now I can ask the question that's been nagging at me over the past month... Is booting gpxelinux.0, under QEMU, which provides it's own GPXE capable boot rom supposed to work? Or, is it a redundant (the GPXE boot room already provides the functionality of gpxelinux.0) and suicidally dumb thing to do? I've found some references to other people