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PXE reading the file name incorrectly
I’m setting up a PXE boot environment using a DHCP server and a Realtek RTL8168 NIC (bulit-in ethernet on my mainboard). I’ve configured DHCP Option 67 to send the boot file name (netboot.xyz.efi), ...
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FAI, PXE & multiple network interfaces - exclude all but one
A class of Linux machines we maintain/build has up to 8 network interfaces, all but one aren't connected in the build phase. I'd like to speed up the build process by telling the initrd to ignore all ...
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terraform resource dependency with count(loop)
I'm trying to create stack of multiple vms on KVM_HOST with terraform. The catch is, I'm using pxeboot & kickstart to do installation. Kickstart file needs to carry some dynamic information, like ...
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how to make terraform pass static IP information to kvm virtual machine with variables, in a kickstart pxeboot enabled env?
I have a kvm host, with bridge network, so the vms get IP info directly from router itself. I have created a pxeboot env with dnsmasq acting as dhcp proxy, and kickstart as method of installation ...
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pxeboot with dnsmasq as dhcp proxy for rockylinux
first, I installed apache & started its service yum install httpd && systemctl enabled httpd --now then I mounted dvd iso & copied its content to apache dir mount -o ro ~/Downloads/...
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Booting working linux image UEFI / PXE / GRUB
I am trying to set up a server to boot opensuse-15.5 via PXE on an UEFI environment and GRUB2. I found this tutorial for Suse that worked quite well. I've got a client getting an IP address, ...
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open source PXE boot for Linux?
On a simple LAN if I have server A that is running RHEL-8.10 installed from rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso or similar which then has a service that allows servers B..Z on the LAN to PXE boot from? What ...
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ubuntu-live-server installation through PXE user-data config error
I am trying to install Ubuntu live server. Everything works fine till the system requests the cloud-init configs. I have tried to change my user-data file several times. Ether it throughs an error &...
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Can grub pass a PXE script to iPXE?
I'm trying to configure a system to boot the Ubuntu live system from a PXE server. The DHCP server on the network doesn't support PXE. The machine has grub and I've installed iPXE. I can select the ...
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Pxeboot - how to set network interface speed?
I can successfully do a PXE boot but the initial load of initrd and kernel is very slow because it drops back to 100Mbit instead of Gigabit. (This probably means it is actually causing all sorts of ...
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Can systemd networkd be configured for netboot, PXE boot, if yes, how?
If I understand this "issue" (systemd-networkd DHCP Server ignores SendOptions #15780), SystemD can be configured to handle network booting. However, I am unable to find more information ...
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PXE boot on UEFI clients and client-dependent configuration file
Everybody seems to be using GRUB to boot UEFI machines via PXE from the network. While it works, it lacks an important feature to be able to direct certain known clients right away. GRUB just requests ...
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GRUB2 and PXE: error: no suitable video mode found
I am building a diskless Debian 11 image that will load over PXE; that part mostly works, but I'm seeing this annoying message during boot: error: no suitable video mode found. Booting in blind mode ...
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Can’t get DNS IPs with NetworkManager during PXE boot
I’ve built a custom Buildroot with NetworkManager as the only networking daemon and booting my board via PXE. The problem is that /etc/resolv.conf is missing actual DNS IPs and domain. While kernel is ...
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PXE boot has OS image size 1GB limitation?
In my experience, if the OS image size is too big, the PXE boot will fail. I am not sure which size is the limitation. ref: https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2002-March/000249.html Does iPXE fix the ...