Preboot Execution Environment
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PXE media test failure - disabled PXE boot now I have a blank screen
So this is similar to this question and this question except after restarting the laptop I now have a totally blank screen. I can hear the fan and the power light is on but the screen is blank. I ...
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How to setup a PXE boot server?
I want to try and setup a PXE boot server for a laptop that has a damaged hard drive. I have a custom built desktop with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and i want to make it my server so i can use my laptop ...
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Windows Deployment Server-RAID Controller
I am to attempting to install Windows 7 onto Dell Workstations using WinPE drivers injected into a Deployment Workbench.
Despite injecting the RAID card drives (Perc 310 to be specific) I cannot get ...
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How to get past Thinkpad T530 PXE prompt to BIOS setup?
How do I get to the Thinkpad T530 BIOS setup? As the laptop turns on I press ENTER when prompted, then press F1 when prompted, but that takes me to the Intel PXE prompt. If I hit CTRL-S I get into the ...
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PXE boot with VMware like Xen
Citrix XenServer has a really nice feature where, when creating a new virtual machine, you can manually set PXE options, and you don't need to have a dedicated machine for holding PXE boot loaders and ...
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Test PXE using VirtualBox
I have a Linux laptop running a PXE server. I run the PXE server on the wired port so I can connect computers to it directly. When the Ethernet port is connected I can use PXE to boot a VirtualBox ...
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Booting off windows image through network
I have a HP st5742, which is a tower that does not have a hard drive and I am trying to boot it off the network, preferably off an image. It was designed along with the program HP Image Manager, ...
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start super small linux over pxe and run some commands
I have a small script which runs a few commands on a client. until now i need to go with my usb drive to the pc, run my live image and then run the script. now i want to use pxe for this.
so the plan ...
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Serva PXE boot on home network stalls on login on client
I have two laptops connected by ethernet cable to a simple home router.
HP Pavilion dv6000 runs a Serva server on Windows 7.
ASUS x71q has a faulty DVD drive, and the F9 restore key does not work, ...
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Installing Win7 over PXE through Serva fails on Loading Network Resources [closed]
Trying to install Win7 OS to a Lenovo E335 with no DVD/CD. I have to do it either over PXE/Network or USB.
Although I am able to get passt the installation menu of Serva, it fails on Loading Network ...
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How to improve slow PXE boot
I am in the process of getting parts together for my new PC. I currently have Virtualbox hosting a Win 2k8 and Windows 7 and each have 2 processors and 2 gigs of ram but PXE booting takes 2-3 minutes. ...
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How can I chainload a USB drive from GRUB2?
I'm using GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5, booted over the network using PXE. I used grub-mknetdir to generate the GRUB image and directory tree, which I'm serving on a TFTP server using Tftpd32 in ...
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Resealing windows XP stops PXE working
I'm trying to capture a drive image of a windows xp pro machine. I've gone through the steps and resealed the machine.
When i try and network boot the PXE instantly gives the message "PXE-MOF" and ...
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Is it possible to boot from internet?
Let's assume the following situation: you have a computer with empty hard disk, and you don't have a CD, floppy, pen drive nearby to boot the computer from. But you have connection to the Internet.
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PXE booting standard images?
I see lots of guides showing very detailed steps on booting into various OS's, but none of the files are explained. It is not clear to me which files part of the PXE server, or are the Network ...
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Setting up VirtualBox guest for PXE boot
I'm having an issue getting VirtualBox to boot from the network. I have a Server 2k8 installed and setup and acting as AD DS, DNS, DHCP and WDS. I have two adapter on the server, one of which I have ...
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How to control the PXE boot behaviour from a Windows Deployment Server?
I have recently seen an IT setup where the Windows Clients start in PXE mode, get an IP via DHCP and then boot from the first HDD. Now the admins have the possibility to say remotely next time the ...
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How to make a pxe bootable 10MegaByte or larger dos image?
Would like to make a "massive" DOS floppy disk image, say 10MegaBytes or more containing all the firmware updates i need for any system, harddrive, BIOS. i do not need the DOS image to be networkable ...
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PXE Boot VirtualBox Mac OS X
I'm looking to PXE Boot VirtualBox for MacOS Lion in a way similar to described with VMware Fusion here:
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Installing linux (Lubuntu) through PXE boot?
I am completely lost here. I'm trying to install linux onto a very old laptop that has no CD drive and won't boot from USB. My only option is a network (PXE) boot. Except... I have no idea how to ...
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Use initrd as root filesystem for network boot
I'm creating a stand-alone set of netboot images based on a LinuxFromScratch installation (7.0, kernel 3.1.0). I want to deploy that image to many diskless clients, but NFS is in my situation not an ...
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How can I set up a PXE-Boot server on DD-WRT?
At home I have a Cisco/Linksys E1000 flashed to DD-WRT (v24-sp2 (04/13/11) mini) and am trying to set it up as a PXE Boot server. There seems to be some info in the DD-WRT wiki which is slighty out of ...
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how to broadcast a PXE server like Trinity Rescue Kit
I would like to set up a portable PXE server for diagnostic purposes. The issue is that I won't always have access to the DHCP server, or the router itself (sometimes a home router) doesn't have an ...
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F keys on a PXE boot (Dell Latitude 830)
So i just got in a shipment of Dell D830s, and im trying to do a PXE boot to our WDS servers....but when I get past the boot option screen to the pre PXE screen that asks for "Press F-12 for network ...
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Can I boot a machine without using a Hard Disk if its running on a PXE server?
I have an old unuseable computer at home that became useless after a hard disk failure. I don't want to spend money on buying a new PATA IDE HDD for it, so I was wondering if I can use a PXE boot ...
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How to network boot a laptop?
I have Windows 7 on a CD-ROM and downloaded as an ISO image. I need to reinstall Windows on a HP Mini 311 - 1000NR laptop which has no CD-ROM drive. In the BIOS I have the option to network boot or ...
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Is possible to boot on PXE over a WiFi device?
As I know it is possible to boot up some bootable images (like Linux, Clonezilla, management applications and others) over a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) server with an Ethernet device (802.3).
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Net boot from debian server using directly connected ethernet cable
I have a computer with grub installed, and nothing else. I'd like to install Debian on it without having to burn a CD. (and I don't have any flash disks.) It has a nice ethernet card, and I have ...
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Maximum vmalloc parameter size for linux?
First off all, I'm booting from a large MEMDISK using PXE (900MB) . Due to our environment, I cannot decrease the size, nor move files to a nfs/iSCSI/... environment. Everything needs to be in that ...
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PXELinux and compressed kernels/images
Is it possible to boot compressed kernels with a compressed initrd with PXELinux?
First, a little background:
We created a custom Linux distro, for diskless OpenCL computing nodes. We want those ...
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Failing to map drive for shared folder in WinPE (PXE/TFTP+DHCP server)
I am failing to map a drive like this:
net use z: \\server\sharedfolder
it immediately returns an error 1231 telling me that the specified host can't be found - even though I have connected both ...
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Some questions regarding PXE servers and multi-booting
I currently work in a technology help desk for my college, where we fix the personal computers of all the students. We have hundreds of DVD's and CD's that we use to boot into all kinds of different ...
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PXE boot issue: Macrium Linux, Atheros NIC, ASUS motherboard
The problem is mainly with the NIC, I suspect: Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114
I've got a PXE boot environment running from a TFTP/DHCP server (as documented here). The server points to a boot file in ...
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PXE Boot Server without DHCP, for many different computers?
I work at a helpdesk for a university where it is very common for us to reformat people's computers using XP, Vista, and Win7 CD's and DVD's. Of course, the discs get scratched and lost a lot.
It is ...
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How do I PXE Boot Only when I want it to without user intervention?
I would like to setup a PXE environment where I can re-image machines remotely without any user intervention. Only problem is when the re-imaging is completed it will do the re-imaging again and again ...
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PC cannot see Clonezilla server when using PXE Boot
Hi I have about 15 workstations, all have the same hardware specs so I figured clonezilla is perfect for cloning them. So I followed everything this guide says :cloning groups of school computers
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PXE Boot not working
Please explain the error in this screenshot:
DHCP Setting:
This screenshot was taken after powering off the old comp hence he server interface is shown as the wireless card - it becomes ...
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PXE Download Files from TFTP Server
I just started working on PXE network booting and successfully configured servers(DHCP and TFTP) and a client. Everything is working well.
DHCP and TFTP servers are configured on Fedora 13 and OS ...
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Reinstalling XP on old laptop, how do I set up a PXE server on my win7 desktop?
I'm reinstalling XP on a very old laptop with a dead cd drive. I don't have any floppy drives and it doesn't support usb booting, so PXE is my only option.
Can I set up a PXE server on my Windows 7 ...
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setup PXE (i.e. DHCP + TFTP) server on MacOSX
What is the easiest way to setup an PXE server (i.e. a DHCP server + TFTP server) on MacOSX? Is there maybe some easy-to-use tool which just comes with both servers builtin?
I have done that in the ...
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Installing linux on a crippled machine via network boot?
I have a somewhat ancient Toshiba laptop (which can't boot from USB) that I want to install linux on (probably Ubuntu).
I'm currently running Windows XP and Ubuntu via Wubi. I want to delete these ...
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What could be causing problems with network install of Debian?
I'm trying to perform a Network install of Debian on a spare PC I have. I'm using Windows XP Pro as my "server" machine and the "client" has a clean Hard Drive with several network cards in that can ...
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EFI pxe network boot error [closed]
Asking this on both serverfault and superuser.
When attempting to network boot RHEL 5.4 on an old ia64 machine I get the following error :
So I've basically followed the tutorial here : ...
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How to install Windows 7 from the network?
Is it possible to install Windows 7 (Current RTM Version) on a computer without using removable media like DVD or USB?
The first thing that comes to my mind is through the network, but I don't have ...
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Network booting a Mac OS install image
I've got a HP Mini 1000 that I'm attempting to turn into a Hackintosh.
At the moment I don't have an external drive handy, so I'm trying to be clever.
Basically, is there some way to take a bootable ...
