Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

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

On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:17 AM, Alexander Heinz wrote:
> hi!
> i am going to explain how to boot an image of a DOS floppy disk or  
> the debian installer via the network

Alex,

Outstanding work!  This is definitely something I would like to see  
on the Etherboot wiki.

I'm going to install mediawiki on SourceForge now that they allow  
multiple MySQL databases, and then we can migrate all the existing  
wiki content over there.

Many thanks for figuring this out, and I look forward to hearing how  
Roy fares in testing it.

Marty

> extract http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.jounin/download/ 
> tftpd32.280.zip
> extract http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ 
> syslinux-3.11.zip
>
> create a directory (e.g. c:\tftproot)
>
> start tftpd32.exe
>
> modify the tftpd32 settings:
> - make c:\tftproot the base directory
> - make sure "PXE Compatibility" is selected
>
> create a valid DHCP server configuration (use pxelinux.0 as boot  
> file) and save it.
>
> a sample DHCP configuration:
> IP pool starting address: 192.168.6.100
> size of pool: 10
> boot file: pxelinux.0
> wins/dns server: 192.168.6.1
> default router: 192.168.6.254
> mask: 255.255.255.0
> domain name: domain.invalid
>
> create an image of bootable DOS floppy disk (e.g. using winimage)  
> and copy it to c:\tftproot\dos.ima
>
> copy these files from the syslinux package to c:\tftproot\:
>
> pxelinux.0
> memdisk/memdisk
> com32/modules/chain.c32
> com32/modules/menu.c32
>
> create the sub-directory c:\tftproot\sarge\
>
> copy http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/ 
> current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux to c:\tftproot 
> \sarge\
>
> copy http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/ 
> current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz to c: 
> \tftproot\sarge\
>
> create the sub-directory c:\tftproot\pxelinux.cfg\  (although there  
> is an extension, it has to be a directory and not a file!)
>
> create a file called default ( c:\tftproot\pxelinux.cfg\default )
>
> # start of the file default
> DEFAULT menu
> PROMPT 0
> TIMEOUT 100
> MENU TITLE a simple boot menu
> LABEL nextdev
>     MENU LABEL next device (depends on BIOS settings)
>     localboot 0
> LABEL fd
>     MENU LABEL floppy A:
>     KERNEL chain.c32
>     append fd0
> LABEL hda
>     MENU LABEL Master Boot Record (MBR) of the 1st hard disk
>     KERNEL chain.c32
>     append hd0
> LABEL dos
>     MENU LABEL Image of a DOS floppy disk
>     KERNEL memdisk
>     append initrd=dos.ima
> label debian
>     MENU LABEL Debian Sarge Installer (Kernel 2.4)
>     kernel sarge/linux
>     append vga=normal initrd=sarge/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9424  
> root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
> LABEL menu
>     MENU HIDE
>     KERNEL menu.c32
> # end of the file default
>
> Cheers
> Alex
>
>
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