Questions tagged [pxe]
Preboot Execution Environment
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Netbooting debian with NFS root but cannot get root access
I'm booting debian 12 via PXE and mounting / over NFS. This is seemingly working quite well. I created the disk by installing Debian from the CD onto a disk and mounting it onto /mnt/debian on my ...
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Where to download a Microsoft PXE image?
When I look for a Microsoft PXE image to download I can only find different tools which will build a PXE image.
Is it still possible to simply download a Microsoft PXE image directly?
Looking to make ...
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PXE Booting a Raspberry pi 4
I have a PXE and TFTP Server in a VM and want to Boot a Raspberry Pi 4 with it.
I want to serve a RaspberryOS image to the pi4 because I don't want to use a sd-card for it.
How do I need to configure ...
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PXE boot fails with PXE-99: "Unexpected network error"
I've configured a Kea DHCP server as follows (two different interfaces serving two different networks):
{
"Dhcp4": {
"valid-lifetime": 4000,
"renew-timer&...
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PXE booting from iSCSI disk stucking on logo
I have win srv 2012 r2 with WDS, TFTP and iSCSI target. Goal is to boot lite win10 with rdp to use it for RDS. WDS configured with syslinux and it working. On boot i can see PXE vesamenu.c32, then ...
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Steps after PXE network boot
I want to setup one click deployment for my computer and automatically install an OS which I will then configure with Ansible for example.
Let's say I have a PXE client and the supporting ...
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PXE (network) boot a computer with no or broken PXE support
Trying to PXE boot a device that just tries IPv4 and IPv6 and gives up few minutes later.
I came across iPXE and netboot.xyz trying to use them to get the computer to boot, and I got to a CLI. I ...
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How to create a PXEboot for tails OS?
I have a PC that can only boot from DD or network. It is standard bios (not UEFI).
I have managed to set-up a PXE boot infrastructure and I've been able to install different Debian based OS on the PC.
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Proxy DHCP via dnsmasq: Grub welcomes me, but then gets stuck
I am attempting to EFI PXE boot GRUB2 using a Proxy DHCP server... It worked just fine with this configuration, which simply replaced the DHCP server:
interface=enp3s0
dhcp-range=192.168.1.10,192.168....
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How to create an almost Diskless PC
TLDR: I want to install a linux system on a NDB share, but without a PXE/TFTP server (BOOT from a USB stick, and switch to NDB share as soon as possible)
Long: In my network I have a NAS which is ...
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Deploying Ubuntu 22.04 with PXEBoot using Syslinux
I have a functional DHCP, ftp and tftp server with a tftpboot directory in which the machines configured in PXEboot come to load syslinux without problems, from the network.
I am trying to install ...
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Modify BIOS settings from Windows
Background
I have several identical PC systems in the field, which are running Windows 10.
I can access them via RDP, but not physically (No Keyboard, Mouse, Display, etc.)
It's necessary now to ...
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Use Smartcard for PXE windows install
In our environment we mostly use smartcards for administration tasks in a Windows Domain (tasks such as sensitive NAS shares access, or RDP logons).
Recently, we started using PXE boot to speed up ...
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Use DHCP server from local network for guest system
I have a host system connected to with eth0 interface to the local network. Host system get network config from DHCP server that runs in this local network.
I want to test PXE related configuration of ...
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How can I configure iPXE menu settings to boot Plop Boot Manager?
I have created a big iPXE server based on an Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 system. I have entries for different Linux images, Windows installers and Clonezilla Live.
Now I want to include also an entry for ...
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I can't map a network share from PXE - WinPE
I have been working these days in deploying a iPXE server. I have made entries to several Linux distributions with no problem. Then, I started to add entries for Windows ISOs for Windows Installation ...
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Install Windows 98 through PXE
I have an old Pentium machine with a broken CDROM drive and no real way to boot except for PXE.
What would be a way to install Windows 98? Would it be possible to boot into a Linux distribution and ...
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Missing firmware to network boot Debian installer via iPXE using Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 NIC
I am using iPXE to network boot Debian bullseye via TP Link TG-3468 NIC. The network card is using Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) ...
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How to test PXE from the commandline?
I am working on setting up a 'PXE boot server', if that is a thing; what I have to work with is a TPlink router (TL-ER7206 v1.0), which offers a DHCP service with 'option 66' which should be set to ...
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Installing Debian Bullseye ISO over PXE with
I have been struggling with finding a solution for this for days now, and it feels like I have missed something but I dont know what. I am trying to create a offline system with unattended Debian ISO ...
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Install Arch Linux (or any os) to a computer with no USB or ethernet?
I have a Microsoft Surface Laptop whose usb does not work. It had a short and the device is permanently disabled (I'm fairly certain it is broken hardware-wise). Regardless, that is the only port this ...
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How To Automate (Provide Answers) To Ubuntu Installer When Booting From NetBoot
I am trying to understand how to provide answers to the Ubuntu Server 20.04 network boot menu so that I can proceed to the next phase.
I am using Sys/PXE Linux and TFTP (tftpd-hpa) to achieve network ...
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PXE boot from physical computer and virtual machine doesn't happen equally
I've set up a WDS server and connected it to my local network switch. When I PXE-boot any physically connected computer with PXE 2.0 on that network, everything works just fine. It boots into Windows ...
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PXE Boot menu architecture based
Is it possible to hide/unhide PXE boot menu items? We have an x86 boot configuration for TinyCore. This works perfect with PXE boot. Now we want to add a Arm version of PiCore to the PXE menu so we ...
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Signed GRUB booting UEFI PXE Windows 10 PE, finally unable to find sbcpflighttoken.p7b and friends
I'm trying to boot Windows 10 amd64 preboot environment (PE) iso I created with Windows ADK + the "PE addon". I'm trying to use signed boot shim and signed GRUB for this.
First I use Debian ...
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How to boot from local disk using grub2 during a PXE boot
I have a working BIOS-based PXE boot setup that I established years ago on a Linux CentOS 7 server. In the pxelinux.cfg/default file, I have the following lines (among other menu entries):
LABEL local
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Recovery (restore) over PXE
How to do I restore my backup file (AOMEI or EaseUS) to multiple computers over the Internet?
How can I take a backup of my computer (Windows 10 Pro) after sysprep on the computer and restore it to ...
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Connecting to uefi PXE server with virtualbox, using a VPN connection
I am on a Windows PC running VirtualBox with nothing installed in.
My PXE server is in UEFI mode. I changed the option in VirtualBox to UEFI boot and the only supported card type is the "...
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kaspersky rescue cd freezes at welcome to grub when pxe boot
So I'am following the official guide for pxe booting the kaspersky rescue cd but when I boot it is freezes at "welcome to Grub".
I want to know what Causes this Problem and How to Fix it.
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PC stuck at boot after displaying PXE information
The PC hangs forever after displaying the following two lines:
Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.27
Copyright (C) 1997-2008, Intel Corporation
Pressing the keys usually bound to BIOS or UEFI functions (F2, ...
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