My New PXE Boot Page
November 1, 2005 – 11:39 pmI just wrote a new page about using PXE to boot Linux on a client from a remote server. I recently had to rebuild the Beowulf Linux cluster I administer from scratch, and in order to restore the slave nodes, I had to use PXE to first boot and the install Linux remotely. The online documentation that existed at the time left a little to be desired. I hope I have plugged at least a few holes in the available literature with this new document.
2 Responses to “My New PXE Boot Page”
Hy Jeff
I tried to setup a network with some workstation whos boot from a PXE ROM; i used your blog as reference but i have a little probleme with boot i think that my tftp server is not corectlly configured please there is any way for testing him thinks.
PLZ forgive my english!!
By amine on Dec 2, 2005 at 12:26 am
Hi Amine. Let’s see if we can figure this out. First off, pardon my ignorance, but what is a PXE ROM? I’m assuming it’s the chip built-in to the network interface card that allows for the PXE functionality, but I’d like to make sure.
As for tftp, the root tftp directory in Fedora Core 4 is “/tftpboot”. When I perform an “ls” in this directory, the entries I see are “FedoraCore4″ (the directory with the copy of the installation CDs), “initrd.img”, “memtest”, “pxelinux.0″, “pxelinux.cfg”, and “vmlinuz”.
Have you edited “/etc/xinetd.d/tftp”? Have you restarted xinetd? The last thing to make sure of is that you have edited your Apache configuration file to point to the root tftp directory so that it is availble for installation via HTTP.
By jjk on Dec 2, 2005 at 8:59 am