PXE Boot Proxmox

Question

I followed this guide to set up a PXE server on an ubuntu VM. Instead of the DHCP server on that same server though, I just configured OPNSense to use that server.

I made the boot image using this script and put the initrd.img and linux26 file in /var/www/boot/proxmox.

I have an apache webserver with the root at /var/www. The tftp server is set to root /var/lib/tftpboot. I copied the proxmox directory (containing initrd.img and linux26) into both /var/www and /var/lib/tftpboot.

I have OPNSense to use pxelinux.cfg/default as the default bios filename (located in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default).

But when I try to use another VM to boot using the server, it gets to the point where it gets a DHCP lease, shows me the network info, then doesn't do anything.

Contents of pxelinux.cfg/default: (I confirmed that the files listed here are accessible).

UI http://10.0.5.0/boot/menu.c32
PROMPT 0
DEFAULT Proxmox


MENU TITLE ..:: My PXE Menu ::..
MENU CLEAR


LABEL Proxmox
    MENU LABEL Proxmox
    LINUX http://10.0.5.0/boot/proxmox/linux26
    APPEND vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216
    INITRD http://10.0.5.0/boot/proxmox/initrd.iso.img splash=verbose

LABEL Proxmox2
    MENU LABEL Proxmox2
    LINUX proxmox/linux26
    APPEND vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216
    INITRD proxmox/initrd.iso.img splash=verbose

How can I get past this point?

Answer 1

You can't use the Label Proxmox one - PXE can't load over http the kernel but proxmox2 should in theory boot okay

Answer 2

It looks like the DHCP server isn't sending the 'next-server' info. Normally the Intel PXE BIOS would print something about TFTP loading the boot kernel, and you'd see the requests in your TFTP log.

I'd double-check your OPNSense config to make sure it has the IP info for your TFTP server.