Re: [Thinstation-general] Making Thinstation UEFI bootable
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Re: [Thinstation-general] Making Thinstation UEFI bootable
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From: <he...@in...> - 2019-04-08 08:57:27
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Hi Don, a quick word of thanks for all your help in getting our installation of TS working. It was particularly challenging due to a bug in the HP BIOS however all good now. Till next time ! On 6/04/2019 1:48 am, Don Cupp via Thinstation-general wrote: syslinux.cfg On Friday, April 5, 2019, 1:00:00 AM PDT, <he...@in...><mailto:he...@in...> wrote: Thanks Jakub, I got it working as per Don's advice to install a http server and yes it is FAST ! Whilst I am happy with this as it works well out of interest where is the config I could have changed to make it tftp instead of http? On 5/04/2019 4:58 pm, Šindelář Jakub wrote: Well the boot loader expects http, that’s why it states „http“ in error You have to either change config to point it to expected protocol (TFTP) or create web server (I recommend this as it speeds up boot time significantly) Jakub Šindelář From: he...@in...<mailto:he...@in...> <he...@in...><mailto:he...@in...> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 1:24 AM To: thi...@li...<mailto:thi...@li...> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] Making Thinstation UEFI bootable Hi Don, I have restarted the devstation and can confirm the file & folder do exist: /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/vmlinuz When you say the web server may not have started, I am not using a web server? I am booting using tftp so I am not sure why the error states "http" Thanks On 5/04/2019 10:20 am, Don Cupp wrote: Try rebooting the DevStation, if the boot folder didn’t exist, the web server might not have started. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone<https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> On Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:08 PM, he...@in...<mailto:he...@in...> <he...@in...><mailto:he...@in...> wrote: OK, an update on my UEFI booting. It appears the UEFI boot is now working as the split screen issue has gone however Thinstation does not boot. The boot process shows: >> Start PXE over IPv4. Station IP address is 10.0.0.89 Server IP address is 10.0.0.9 NBP filename is /boot/efi64/bootx64.efi NBP filesize is 199952 bytes Downloading NBP file... Succeed to download NBP file. Getting cached packet My IP is 10.0.0.89 Thinstation Linux Loading http://10.0.0.9/boot/vmlinuz... failed: No such file or directory boot: It appears to me that Thinstation is looking to download the file above using http whereas I am using tftp and I am unable to access the file mentioned above using http. Any help would be greatly appreciated. On 4/04/2019 2:23 pm, he...@in...<mailto:he...@in...> wrote: Hi Don, once again thanks for the updated info & video. For the benefit of anyone else reading this, the video shows the configuration in pfSense and it appears there are four settings for PXE boot that are configured. 1) Next Server 2) Default BIOS file name 3) UEFI 32 bit file name 4) UEFI 63 bit file name We are using Windows Server 2008R2 for the DHCP so the settings are slightly different to pfSense DHCP. My understanding is: Number 1 in the list above equates to DHCP option 66 Numbers 2, 3 & 4 are all variations of DHCP option 67 #2 is used for legacy PXE booting "/boot/lpexlinux/lpxelinux.0" #3 is used for 32 bit UEFI PXE booting "/boot/efi32/syslinux.efi" #4 is used for 64 bit UEFI PXE booting "/boot/efi64/bootx64.efi" Unlike pfSense Windows DHCP appears to only allow a singe value for option 67 and as we are using UEFI with 64 bit machines we can set it accordingly. I am not sure how/if this could be managed in a mixed legacy/UEFI/32bit/64bit environment. I will be testing this tomorrow and hopefully we will get to boot using PXE UEFI... Thanks https://github.com/Thinstation/thinstation/wiki/Deployment#booting-from-network-via-pxe On 26/03/2019 1:17 pm, Don Cupp via Thinstation-general wrote: This should help. Updated Documentation, Yay! Getting Started with ThinStation<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5eKjE618s&t=17m20s> [https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/23/logos/youtube.png] Getting Started with ThinStation Setting up a network lab with pfSense and ThinStation. On Monday, March 25, 2019, 3:41:33 AM PDT, <he...@in...><mailto:he...@in...> wrote: I have a series of workstations that will only work if legacy boot is turned off in the BIOS, accordingly they need to boot using UEFI. I note my standard Thinstation images will not work with UEFI via PXE or an ISO burnt to disk. I understand that to make UEFI boot work I need 3 things: 1) pick an efi boot loader. 2) add systemd-boot after refind in build.conf 3) dhcp server needs to point efi clients to the efi bootloader I am lost on items (1) and (3). Item (2) was simple to achieve. Can anyone point me in the right direction with (1) and (3) please, I am unsure of where to start. _______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li...<mailto:Thi...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general _______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li...<mailto:Thi...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general _______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li...<mailto:Thi...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general _______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li...<mailto:Thi...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general _______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li...<mailto:Thi...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general |
