Questions tagged [pxe]
Preboot Execution Environment
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Making a PXE-bootable 10MB or larger DOS image
I would like to make a "massive" DOS floppy disk image, say 10MB or more, containing all the firmware updates I need for any system, hard drive or BIOS.
I do not need the DOS image to be network-able ...
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Computer doesn't boot up, shows PXE error and/or "operating system not found", "no bootable device", "insert boot media", or other similar error
My computer no longer boots Windows or the installed operating system. Instead, I may get this error:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
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Check cable connection!
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
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Installing Win7 over PXE through Serva fails on Loading Network Resources [closed]
I'm trying to install Win7 OS on a Lenovo E335 with no DVD/CD. I'm doing it over PXE/Network using Serva.
Although I am able to get passed Serva's installation menu, ServaPENet fails at the booting ...
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Converting WinPE/ISO to WIM for WDS
Is there a way to convert boot images to WIM so that they work in Windows Deployment Services?
I have a file that was created PartAssist_WinPE.iso but contains no .wim file.
Does WDS only support ....
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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 does WDS detect if a client is UEFI or Legacy?
I've been using WDS for a while, and now we want to move to iPXE and chain into WDS, but due to some DHCP issues (we are not the owners and cannot configure it) I'm unable to configure the DHCP ...
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How to boot Windows ISO installation using PXE (without Windows AIK or whatever)
I have a Linux PXE server.
Can boot into Linux ISO installers using PXE with no problems.
But how can I do it with Windows ISO? Just start the installation. Without creating some stuff (winpe) under ...
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UEFI syslinux does not load initrd over HTTP in PXE boot
I am trying to set up a GParted Live PXE boot and follow the PXELINUX instructions to set up the boot.
I've got it working with TFTP but now I want to switch the loading of vmzlinuz, initrd and other ...
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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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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 ...
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How can I make a SquashFS file the root file system when doing an iPXE boot?
I have a system that works perfectly fine as iPXE boot server. Now I'm trying to make it use a SquashFS file as a root file system, instead of an NFS file system.
The current system uses iPXE ...
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Change Bios boot order after PXE installation
I'm doing a PXE installation.
I success to do it but I have a final problem and I don't know where to search to find this answer.
After my installation I would like to switch from my network bios ...
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Serva PXE boot on home network stalls on login on client [closed]
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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How to PXE boot with ARM?
I'm trying to setup diskless UEFI + PXE + NFS booting for CentOS 7 on ARM. Generally, the process looks like this:
Client CPU boots UEFI firmware
Client UEFI's PXE firmware requests DHCP from the ...
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Can PXE be run over a multi-port bridged nic?
I have a system which i've configured and tested with one ethernet port that acts as a PXE server, and it works. I also have a quad port nic sitting around I'd like to utilize so I've been wondering ...
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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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Unable to login to main pc(server) in serva pxe boot
I can not pass from here it
Unable to login here. It says invalid password of network name not found i tried everything, But I am unable to pass from it
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linux freeze with pxe when there are more than 1 network interface
I have setup 2 virtual machines with virtualbox:
the 1st (named server after this) one acts as dhcp (isc-dhcp-server) and tftp (atftpd) server
the other one (named "client" after this) as a diskless ...
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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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How to PXE boot over WAN
I currently have a Debian PC and a Raspbian Raspberry Pi on my home network behind my router. The router has a port open for me in which I can ssh into the rPi when I'm away, and then once I'm in the ...
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Use BCDEDIT to configure PXE boot as default boot option
I have a lab full of computers using UEFI that I want to always attempt to PXE boot before all other boot options. However, after automatically imaging a PC with Windows 8.1/Windows 10, the UEFI boot ...
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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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How to setup UEFI support on Serva?
I'm trying to setup a PXE server with Serva to deploy Windows 8.1 for a bunch of HP ElitePads. The server is working correctly for other PCs and virtual machines, but not the the HP ElitePads.
I've ...
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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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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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How to boot bootable ISO with PXE?
I have DHCP/TFTP/Syslinux installed on my computer in the LAN. With it I can boot any images on any other LAN computers, including diskless, for example, Memtest86+ and it works.
Also I have some ...
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Lubuntu LiveCD disabling auto-mount.
In cooperation with my IT teacher we want to boot all PC's in IT class with Lubuntu. I've successfully set up PXE server, but there is one thing that worries us. Harddrives shouldn't be accessible ...
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Setup BIOS to network boot to FOG server
I have a FOG server installed on my Ubuntu 12.4 OS. The FOG server is setup and running. On the client machine, I am trying to network boot into my FOG server, but it never connects. I can't figure ...
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Remote PXE server files
Is it possible to view the contents of a remote PXE/TFTP Server on a Windows PC? I would like to get the pxelinux.0 file off of a remote server, but when I connect using WinSCP or just Explorer I get ...
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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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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:
http://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/pxe-boot-in-vmware-fusion-using-host-only-...
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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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PXE Boot not working
Please explain the error in this screenshot:
DHCP Setting:
This screenshot was taken after powering off the old comp hence the server interface is shown as the wireless card - it becomes 192.168.0.1 ...
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Debugging PXE booting problems with GRUB
I want to boot the current Antergos Live CD via pxenetboot.
To do this, I downloaded the ISO, mounted it and copied the contents into /tftp/antergos/.
Then I set up dnsmasq to offer tftp and used
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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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Use grub2 (PXE) to boot local OS
I have set up a tftp server and put grub2 essentials generated by grub-mknetdir to the root of the tftp server.
What I want is just to boot the local OS from the grub2 on the server because I can ...
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Install WAIK installation images over PXE
I setup a PXE Server and use it to serve some tools and live systems over the network (Setup with Debian Wheezy, tftpd-hpa, isc-dhcpd and nfs-kernel-server) and would like to deploy Windows ...
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Computer says "succeed to download nbp file" but doesn't boot into PE
I'm trying install windows 7 over network. I tried tftpd and serva, but with both of them, my laptop will just get to the message "succeed to download nbp file" and then proceeds to boot normally ...
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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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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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What is the difference between PXE and NETBOOT?
I have some confusion with these two terms. Perhaps they do the same job and the only thing that differentiates it is that NETBOOT is from Apple ... help me please I'm confused with this.
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Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using PXE + preseed
Good afternoon, trying to set up Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation with PXE-Server using a response file.
Installation is successful, but the problem is that after setting up, there are no network ...
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Need help to install windows on laptop. No CD, no USB, PXE is failing
NOTE: I wrote this as I had problems with the PXE/Network installation, but I managed to solve it as I was writing it. This is more of a helper guide if someone else has the same problem. Also, I don'...
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Network Boot Virtual Envirorment Instance
Is there a way I can boot a Hyper-V, VMware, or some sort of other virtual instance from another computer via something like PXE. I'd like to setup a diskless environment running Windows 8. Seeing as ...
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