Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Roy Wiseman wrote:
> Hello,
> ok, in summary, I have tftpd32.exe running on a
> Windows XP box. DHCP is turned off on my router so
> that tftpd32 controls the DHCP for the PXEBOOT. I
> point the DHCP in tftp32d to provide pxelinux.0 to pxe
> clients, and this works in that, I pxelinux.0 is found
> and boots.

I'm glad you got that far.

> The problem seems to be menu.c32 and getting memlinux
> to go for a new DOS image (or any other image). maybe.

Sounds like you should join the SYSLINUX mailing list and ask there.

I did a google search for:

     tftpd32 pxe boot windows

And found a lot of links that looks interesting.

Here is one that seemed to have specific, practical, information.

    http://pxes.sourceforge.net/howtos/ms_only_environment/

> ...
> Please, has someone got a working pxelinux boot system
> on windows xp with tftpd32.exe ? There is that page
> that describes how to setup tftpd32 that I was pointed
> to from this list but that only provides useful
> information up to the dhcp boot part. it does not help
> at all with pxelinux / default / menu.c32 / memlinux.
> i.e. it doesn't help to get a boot image to boot at
> all.
> please help ? somebody must have done this somewhere
> right ?

The SYSLINUX list is probably the first and best place for you to be  
asking this kind of thing.  If they say that Etherboot's PXE  
implementation is somehow not working properly, then we could debug  
things here, but so far, it looks PXELINUX specific.

> Once I can get a simple DOS image booting across the
> network, I can then start to learn all the in's and
> out's of pxelinux, but without any basic working
> system, I can't do anything (oh, for useful
> documentation with examples ! I'll gladly write it
> myself for Win32 if you guys can help me to get this
> working).

This seems like sound reasoning.  One thing I would recommend is  
trying to do this on a Linux system, which is much more well- 
documented (and there are probably a lot more people who can help you  
with it), then see if there is something different between the two  
systems (tftpd vs. win32tftpd, dhcpd vs. the windows equivalent, etc.)

If you provide enough specific information for those of us who have a  
windows machine around to duplicate your setup, some of us will be  
willing to do this, I'm sure.  (others may say they don't do windows,  
but don't let that bother you :)

> Roy.

Thanks for writing.  I encourage you to continue, and to rely on the  
Etherboot and SYSLINUX mailing lists.  I would be very interested in  
getting a writeup when you get this working.

Marty

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