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Executing EFI Shell script via PXE
I want to have a way to execute low-level maintenance task via the EFI Shell and have a corresponding entry in the Boot Menu. It essentially should execute an EFI Shell script. From there I can call ...
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How to create a PXEboot for tails OS?
I have a PC that can only boot from DD or network. It is standard bios (not UEFI).
I have managed to set-up a PXE boot infrastructure and I've been able to install different Debian based OS on the PC.
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How to create an almost Diskless PC
TLDR: I want to install a linux system on a NDB share, but without a PXE/TFTP server (BOOT from a USB stick, and switch to NDB share as soon as possible)
Long: In my network I have a NAS which is ...
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Modify BIOS settings from Windows
Background
I have several identical PC systems in the field, which are running Windows 10.
I can access them via RDP, but not physically (No Keyboard, Mouse, Display, etc.)
It's necessary now to ...
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How can I configure iPXE menu settings to boot Plop Boot Manager?
I have created a big iPXE server based on an Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 system. I have entries for different Linux images, Windows installers and Clonezilla Live.
Now I want to include also an entry for ...
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Install Arch Linux (or any os) to a computer with no USB or ethernet?
I have a Microsoft Surface Laptop whose usb does not work. It had a short and the device is permanently disabled (I'm fairly certain it is broken hardware-wise). Regardless, that is the only port this ...
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How To Automate (Provide Answers) To Ubuntu Installer When Booting From NetBoot
I am trying to understand how to provide answers to the Ubuntu Server 20.04 network boot menu so that I can proceed to the next phase.
I am using Sys/PXE Linux and TFTP (tftpd-hpa) to achieve network ...
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PXE Boot menu architecture based
Is it possible to hide/unhide PXE boot menu items? We have an x86 boot configuration for TinyCore. This works perfect with PXE boot. Now we want to add a Arm version of PiCore to the PXE menu so we ...
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Signed GRUB booting UEFI PXE Windows 10 PE, finally unable to find sbcpflighttoken.p7b and friends
I'm trying to boot Windows 10 amd64 preboot environment (PE) iso I created with Windows ADK + the "PE addon". I'm trying to use signed boot shim and signed GRUB for this.
First I use Debian ...
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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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Serva Kali 32-bit live kernel panic no working init found
I am trying to boot an Intel Pentium 4 based 32-bit architecture PC through Serva PXE server.
I have set up Serva (https://www.vercot.com/~serva/) on a Windows 10 machine with the following settings:
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Can't see Windows Boot Manager in my BIOS setup
I have a Razer Blade 15. When I boot my device, a message is flashed which says,
Checking Media Presence.....
No Media Present.....
but this message is only flashed for a second and then my laptop ...
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PXE boot hangs after PXE menu
My usecase is to install RHEL on a machine through PXE boot. I could do this with the standard RHEL OS and also automated installation with kickstart file.
Problem comes when I am trying to do the ...
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CLIENT MAC ADDR error on booting via Intel PXE
I'm having a problem with VMware where, when I try to boot any ISO, it always says:
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0C 29 A9 3A 2E GUID: 564D12D9-E543-62C5-2E3C-35A030A93A
PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP ...
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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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PXE Boot Proxmox
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 ...
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PXELINUX network booting an ISO file
I'm trying to boot through the network with the help of PXELINUX. I've installed the necessary tools using the official Syslinux documentation.
My PXELINUX configuration file (/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/...
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PXE Boot Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 with USB 3.0 Ultra Dock
I'm attempting to image a Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 (Win10) using SCCM 2012 R2. Since the tablet has no natural ethernet connection, I have it hooked up to a Lenovo USB 3.0 Ultra Dock. I am able to see ...
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How to restore a computer to a saved state on boot up? [closed]
Some computer labs and internet cafes have software that resets the hard drive when the computer is rebooted. This is great from a support perspective, because most problems could be solved by power ...
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Change bootorder on Dell computers with UEFI
Does anyone know a way to change the bootorder from inside the OS (Windows 7/10) on Dell computers?
It is working fine with legacy mode and using cctk but does not seem to have any effect when the ...
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Is there a default conf file to build a kernel for pxe booting
Summary:
I am trying to build a kernel to pxe boot Clonezilla. I think the one that comes with the live CD has issues pxe booting.
So I need to build a kernel and so far all my attempts have ended ...
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How can I PXE-boot SystemRescueCD with pur TFTP (no HTTP or NFS)?
As a base I started with the configuration of TFTP-PXE-Boot-Server. But now I also want to boot SystemRescueCD (version 2017-06-11) with using PXE.
I downloaded the ISO image and then on the TFTP-...
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Difference between PXE boot and PXE install
I was tasked with installing Linux on different machines for my university and I did it by using PXE. At least I thought I did. I followed a guide and now I'm able to boot via network, but only one PC ...
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How to have PXE boot try forever to boot?
Sorry for asking maybe a stupid question, but I'm kind of stuck. I have configured my system to boot from network (PXE boot), but now I want to check that it keeps trying to boot even if the dhcp ...
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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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How do I boot over LAN/PXE without a router?
I have 2 computers connected by Ethernet I would like to boot one from the other over PXE using Ethernet.
Do I have to have a router to do so or can I skip it? I would like to boot a linux distro on ...
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Install Linux using PXE
I'm trying to install Linux using PXE Boot. I've set up the server and is running. When I try to get the pxelinux.0 file using tftp it succeeds to get the file.
You can see in this video what is ...
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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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Windows 10: Start PXE over ipv4 error
I've had This problem when that I have seen a lot of answers to on the internet but none of the worked for me.
When I boot I get a black screen that says like initialisation complete or something ...
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PXE boot fails over to preinstalled GRUB without error message
I am following this guide to boot up a minimal arch linux image via PXE. My system has an ASUS F2A85V motherboard.
When selecting the PXE boot in the boot menu, I get following output:
>>Start ...
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Auto start specific kernel using grub after a PXE boot
I've been working on getting a ipcop installation to work by PXE booting it from a FOG PXE server. When booting, it automatically switches to a grub commandline without booting into the ipcop ...
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Want HP Pavilion 10-e010nr to default PXE Legacy boot from wired network
Have Pavilion 10-e010nr note-book laptop. InsydeH2O 3.7 BIOS.
I want it to PXE boot from the network interface, in legacy mode, by default. I am the IT department.
Security:
There are no ...
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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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HP Server not booting - "PXE-E53: No boot filename received"?
We have an issue with our HP DL360 G5 server not booting.
It starts up, but gets stuck at a "PXE-E53: No boot filename received" error.
Can you shed some light on how to resolve this issue?
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system init and logging failure for diskless pxe boot
I'm going to set up a disk-less cluster and as the first step, I configured a Debian(Jessie) installation as the server and its dhcp, tftp, nfs according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/...
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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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Boot Micro PC remotely via WiFi
I have a Micro PC (Intel Atom Bay Trail T-CR Z3735F) and I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to wake it up remotely, whether through network (WoWLAN, PXE or so) or through some AC Power Failure ...
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Ubuntu Lenovo boots to "PXE-E61 Media Test Failure - Check Cable"
Thanks for opening this, I'm helpless.
I have a Lenovo E545 ThinkPad running Ubuntu 14.04 off of the[Samsung 840 SSD that I installed when I bought the computer. Everything as run fine until I tried ...
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How does each PXE boot client know to grab the image from Clonezilla server?
I am kind of used to Fog and trying out Clonezilla for a change. For Fog, all of our clients are on PXE boot all of the time.
I noticed there is not much instruction on Clonezilla server through PXE ...
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PXE boot - can't access BIOS
The issue I'm having is with a Dell Vostro 3360, Windows 7 64 Bit + Ubuntu 12.04 (Dual Boot).
Everything worked perfectly until one day after a windows update it started showing this message on start ...
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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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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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Merge a squashFS and a initrd into one single file (PXE booting)
I have a initrd and a cloop (squashFS). Which is the simplest way, to merge those 2 files into one single initrd file, for the purpose of PXE-booting the whole image at once without any bootstrapping ...
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PXE reliability
I understand that PXE is implemented by using TFTP over UDP - neither one of those protocols verifies integrity, which would seem important for something like the operating system - is there some sort ...
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New Dell & old Compaq laptop DOS PXE boot with wireless router [closed]
I have a Netgear wireless router connected to the internet, and a new Dell laptop.
How can I PXE boot my old Compaq laptop, which is connected to the router with an ethernet LAN cable?
Even a ...
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HP HDX 16 Fails on WDS PXE BOOT
When I PXE boot my HP HDX 16 machine it will show the boot options. If I go Windows 7 x86 it will go to the screen to pick which Windows to install. However, if go with the Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 ...
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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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Boot Kali iso from HDD in existing boot menu
Currently, we have FOG as our computer imaging solution. All PCs have PXE boot setup, and FOGs boot menu is showing.
What I would like to do is to add the Kali iso as a start-up option, which would ...
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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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Convert or add a localy installed linux distro to PXE-boot server
I have a Linux distro installed (debian) and configured in a VM.
I'm looking for a way to add it to my PXE-server so that clients can boot to it (live session)
Very confused at the moment, should i ...
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