pxe setup

[diensthunds]

I've managed to get a pxe setup going to a point, I'm stuck at the boot screen and can not get past the kernel trying to boot, it does and then drops into a waiting for sda to settle then drops me into busybox saying it can't find system to use. Where's the disconnect here?

[ralfi]

Hi diensthunds,
have a look at this

http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php?title=Diskussion:Installation_vom_Netzwerk

It works, feel free to ask here if necessary

[diensthunds]

ralif
thanks for the link, even though my German is about as good as my Spanish (I don't speak either fluently) google translate filled in what wasn't in English. I was able to modify my set server set up along with a few modifications of the info on the link, to adjust where I have things stored and ip address ranges and was able to fully boot the pxe client up into a live iso of Siduction. Your help is greatly appreciated!

[ralfi]

Okay, sounds good. Have fun! And okay, i will translate this wiki entry soon.

[diensthunds]

Once I have everything up and running the way I want (still have a few additional iso's to serve up over the pxe server) I can do a write up of how I did it and if you want to put it to the community for review I wouldn't mind. ;-)

[devil]

good idea! The wiki is a good place for that. Sfter review it could go to the manual.

greetz
devil

[ralfi]

;-)

But there are a lot of different problems to server iso´s over pxe, depends on there builds, esp. initramfs. Good luck ...

[ralfi]

as pxe menu

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# DO NOT FORGET TO FIT IP-ADRESSE(S), PATH(S), NFS-EXPORTS  AND NBD-SERVER CONFIG FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT !

DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
# DEFAULT menu.c32

ALLOWOPTIONS 1
NOESCAPE 1
PROMPT 0

#  Autostart first LABEL after 5 sec.
TIMEOUT 50
#  new reading of pxe-config after 5 min.
TOTALTIMEOUT 3000

# my background pic
MENU BACKGROUND /pxelinux.cfg/mypxe.jpg

# MENU WIDTH 80
# MENU MARGIN 5
# MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 8
# MENU TABMSGROW 20
# MENU CMDLINEROW 20
# MENU ENDROW 25
# MENU PASSWORDROW 10

MENU COLOR pwdborder    30;47      # ffff0000 # 00000000 std
MENU COLOR pwdheader    31;47      # ffff0000 # 00000000 std
MENU COLOR pwdentry     30;47      # ffff0000 # 00000000 std

MENU ROWS 14
MENU TIMEOUTROW 20

#  hide TABMSG, but usable if necessary
MENU TABMSG
MENU PASSPROMPT enter your password
MENU AUTOBOOT local boot in #  sec ...


#  ***************************************
MENU TITLE *** My PXE Server Boot Menu ***
#  ***************************************

LABEL LocalHDD
MENU LABEL ^Local boot ...
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0
#  or: "LOCALBOOT 0x80"
#TEXT HELP
#some hints of needed
#ENDTEXT

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL Memtest
MENU LABEL RAM-^Test ...
KERNEL memtest/mt86plus
TEXT HELP
large and excessive RAM test
ENDTEXT

LABEL Avira
MENU LABEL AVIRA Antivirus Rescue Live-CD...
KERNEL avira_rescue/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=791 initrd=/avira/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=366000 root=/dev/ram0 rw console=/dev/vc/4
#  if display fails try with: "vga=scan nofb"

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL PartMagic
MENU LABEL ^Partition Magic...
MENU PASSWD top-secret
LINUX pmagic/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/pmagic/initrd.img edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256 nosound nocpufreq nobluetooth samba keymap=de-latin1 de_DE

LABEL DareksNuke
MENU LABEL ^Dareks Disk Eraser starten ...
MENU PASSWD top-secret
LINUX /dban/dban.bzi
APPEND nuke="dwipe" vga=791

LABEL SysResc3
# nbd-export of sysrc.dat necessary !
MENU LABEL ^System Rescue 3 ...
MENU PASSWD top-secret
LINUX sresc3/rescue32
APPEND initrd=/sr3/initram.igz netboot=nbd://192.168.122.2:65001 dodhcp scandelay=1 docache vga=791 setkmap=de

LABEL FreeDOS
MENU LABEL ^FreeDOS Floppy ...
MENU PASSWD top-secret
LINUX memdisk
APPEND initrd=/freedos/fdboot.img

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL siduction
# nbd-export of iso-image necessary !
MENU LABEL ^siduction KDE ...
MENU PASSWD siduction
LINUX siduction/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/siduction/initrd fromhd=/dev/nbd0 root=/dev/nbd0 nbdroot=192.168.122.2,65000 boot=fll toram noeject nointro noswap apm=off noapic nodma noisapnpbios nomce nosmp lang=de 3

LABEL Ploplinux
MENU LABEL ^Plop Linux ...
LINUX plop/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/plop/initramfs.gz vga=791 nfsmount=192.168.122.2:/srv/tftp/plop iso_filename=ploplinux.iso copy2ram debug


;-)

[diensthunds]

ralfi even adjusting your script to use on my system (changing ip addresses and such) I ran into a problem with the initd of siduction, it would drop to a shell which I had to either ctrl d or type exit into in order to get the system to continue to boot.